COLLEGE PARK, MD – After a standout two-year career with Maryland,
Jahmir Young signed an Exhibit-10 deal with the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night. Young, who was named to the 2024 Portsmouth Invitational All-Tournament Team, held preseason workouts with 14 NBA teams prior to the draft.
Young finished the season garnering several postseason honors: NABC All-District 7 First Team, All-Big Ten First Team, Associated Press All-Big Ten Second Team. He was also selected to the All-Big Ten Second Team by the coaches and named as Maryland's Sportsmanship Award honoree.
The Upper Marlboro, MD, native finished the 2023-24 season averaging 20.4 points per game which ranked third in the Big Ten and 29th nationally. His 2,626 career points were second-most among all active NCAA players. He posted a career-best 652 points this year which ranks 12th all-time for a single-season at Maryland. He is just the fifth player in Maryland history to reach 1,000 points in two seasons and the third fastest to do so needing just 57 games.
His 20.4 points per game this year is tied for 11th in a single-season for program history, while his 18.0 point per game average over two years is fifth-best all-time at Maryland for a career. After having posted 1,421 points at Charlotte, he became just the sixth player since 2006 to score 1,000 points at two different institutions. He concluded his Maryland career with 1,205 points which ranks 37th all-time in program history. He also tied Eric Hayes for the program record for free throw percentage (.870) after converting 341-of-392 attempts. His 198 made free throws this year rank fifth all-time for a single-season, while his .900 free throw percentage was third. He also finished his career ranked eighth all-time for minutes average at 33.2 per game.
Young posted 18 20-point games this year along with three 30-point efforts. His career-high 37 points in the win at UCLA and his 36 points at Northwestern are the top two individual regular-season scoring performances in the league this year.
He earned All-Big Ten Second Team honors in 2023 where he was also a two-time All-District selection earning NABC and USBWA honors.
An Exhibit 10 contract is a one-year, minimum salary NBA contract with a specific Exhibit 10 attachment built into it and no other bonuses. These attachments are not present in every NBA contract, only deals in which both parties have agreed to include it. Exhibit 10 attachments allow the NBA team to convert a player's one-year, minimum contract into a two-way contract but this has to occur prior to the start of the regular season. These one-year deals are often non-guaranteed, which lets NBA teams waive the player and remove their cap hit from the team payroll.
