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The two-way contract quota has been used up, and the Grizzlies second-round pick has to start their career in the Development League?

6:15am, 6 September 2025【Basketball】

According to the news of Chris Herrington, a local Memphis media reporter from the Daily Memphis media, the backcourt player Jahmai Mashack, who was selected by the second round 59 in this year's NBA Draft, will start his new season with the Grizzlies' NBA Development League team Memphis. The news about Herrington was subsequently recognized by another local Memphis reporter, The Memphis Commercial Appeal reporter Damichael Cole.

Mesak was born in November 2002 and is 22 years old, 191cm tall and weighs 89kg. He is the backcourt star from the University of Tennessee who was selected by the Grizzlies in the 59th pick in the second round of this year's NBA Draft. In the NCAA game last season, Meschak made a total of 38 appearances for the University of Tennessee, where he was, with averaging 28.1 minutes per game, averaging 6 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.5 assists, 0.5 blocks, 0.9 turnovers and 2.3 fouls, shooting percentage of 45.4%, three-point shooting percentage of 35.1%, and free throw shooting percentage of 72.3%. Meschak was shortlisted for the SEC League's best defensive team last season, which also shows that his performance on the defensive end has been fully recognized. However, on the other hand, Mesak's contribution to the offensive end is indeed relatively limited. His scoring ability is very average. He seems to have no way to play a good effect in organization and tandem offense. He is a player with relatively single overall function.

However, during the previous summer league, Meschak's performance was far beyond expectations. He played 5 times in the summer league, with averaging 23.7 minutes per game, averaging 9 points, 4 rebounds, 4.4 assists, 1.2 blocks, 2.2 turnovers and 3.8 fouls, with a shooting percentage of 46.2%, 3-point shooting percentage of 41.7%, and free throw shooting percentage of 66.7%. Meschak also showed his decent scoring ability during the summer league. His performance in organization and tandem is also worthy of recognition. He also maintained an extremely high level on the defensive end. His performance on both offense and defense is better than on the NCAA.

Cole said that the Grizzlies are still very optimistic about Meschak's prospects, and they are also quite acknowledging Meschak's performance during the NBA summer league. The problem is that they used a two-way contract to sign Olivier-Maxence Prosper, the forward star who had just been cut by the Dallas Mavericks, and the team used up the quota for the two-way contract, which led to them being unable to sign with Meschak for the time being, and he had to stay in the current NBA Development League field for a while.