Amir Coffey got one step closer to making his dream of playing in the NBA come true.
The former Gophers guard officially signed a two-way contract with the Los Angeles Clippers, the team's President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank announced Tuesday night.
Coffey went undrafted in June after leaving the Gophers a year early, but the 6-foot-8 guard found an organization that really believed in his talent to play at the next level.
"Just because you go undrafted doesn't mean it won't work out," Coffey told the Star Tribune before going to Vegas. "I know a big story in the past year was [former Wichita State and current Toronto Raptors guard] Fred VanVleet. He was a guy who went undrafted and look at him now."
Under a two-way contract, a concept the NBA introduced in 2017, a player spends most of the season in the developmental G League but can spend a maximum of 45 days on an NBA roster.
MARCUS FULLER
