Khadeen Carrington didn’t give up on his NBA dream when he went overseas last year. He merely delayed it.
The former Seton Hall star from Brooklyn is getting another crack now. The 6-foot-4 Carrington will play for the Oklahoma City Thunder at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, which starts this week, hoping to do enough to earn an invite to training camp.
“He obviously has to play well in summer league, has to impress and take advantage of his opportunities,” his agent Adam Godes of 3Eye Sports said in a phone interview. “The way the roster is set up, he’s one of only three point guards on the roster. There should be an opportunity for him to impress.”
The Thunder summer league roster also includes Queens native Hamidou Diallo, a second-round pick a year ago. The other point guards on the roster are Devin Cannady of Princeton and Jawun Evans of Oklahoma State.
Carrington, a 1,000-point scorer in college, helped Seton Hall reach three straight NCAA Tournaments and win the Big East Tournament crown in 2015.
Carrington spent this past season in Belgium, playing for Limburg and averaging 14.8 points, 4.8 assists and 3.6 rebounds, after playing in summer league with the Pistons a year ago. He had a tryout with the NBA champion Raptors and Thunder, and earned a spot with Oklahoma City.
If Carrington doesn’t stick with the Thunder and there are no other NBA opportunities, he will head back overseas, and play in the top division of Germany’s BBL with MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg. He has a clause in his six-figure contract that let him out of it to play in the NBA, according to Godes.