MIAMI, July 24 – The Miami HEAT announced today that they have signed guard
Derrick Walton Jr. to a Two-Way Contract. Per club policy, terms of the deal
were not disclosed.
Walton appeared in four Summer League games (one start) with the Magic in
Orlando and averaged 10.0 points, 3.5 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 20.5 minutes
while shooting 46.9 percent (15-of-32) from the field, 50 percent (6-of-12) from
three-point range and 66.7 percent (4-of-6) from the foul line. His 50 percent
shooting from downtown tied for the third-highest during the Orlando Summer
League with a minimum of 10 attempts.
Walton appeared in 127 games (126 starts) at the University of Michigan,
becoming the only player in program history to score at least 1,000 points, grab
500 rebounds and dish out 400 assists. Among the school’s all-time leaders, he
finished second in free throw percentage (.837), third in starts, fourth in
assists (499), tied for fourth in three-point field goals made (233), seventh in
steals (146), eighth in minutes (4,053), tied for 15th in games played and 22nd
in points (1,471). He helped lead the Wolverines to the 2017 Big Ten
Championship and was named the Big Ten Tournament MVP as he continued to guide
Michigan to a Sweet 16 berth in the NCAA Tournament after defeating No. 2
Louisville in the previous game.
Additionally, he dished out a single-game school record 16 assists at Nebraska
on March 5, 2017 and recorded just the fifth triple-double in Michigan history
after tallying 10 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists against Youngstown State on
December 19, 2015.
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