SYRACUSE, N.Y. ― Former Syracuse basketball player Joe Girard will play for the Toronto Raptors’ entry in the NBA’s 2024 Summer League in Las Vegas.
Girard, who spent this past season at Clemson, will join the Raptors when the NBA Summer League starts on July 12. The league runs through July 22.
Girard, a 6-foot-1 guard, played at Syracuse for four years from 2019 to 2013. He scored 1,652 points in his four years with the Orange. As a senior in the 2022-23 season, Girard averaged a career-high 16.4 points per game.
Girard had a fifth year of eligibility thanks to the NCAA’s decision to grant all athletes an extra year of eligibility if they played through the Covid-impacted 2020-21 season.
Girard transferred to Clemson for his final year of eligibility. He scored 15.1 points per game for the Tigers and made 41% of his 3-point shots. Clemson went 11-9 in the ACC, but earned an NCAA tournament bid and advanced to the Elite 8 before losing 89-82 to Alabama.
Girard is the second former Syracuse player to sign a deal with an NBA team since the end of the league’s annual draft on Thursday. Jesse Edwards, who came to SU in the same recruiting class with Girard and transferred to West Virginia for his fifth and final year of college ball, signed a two-way deal with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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