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After going undrafted, Melo Trimble to play for 76ers summer league team

Former Maryland guard Melo Trimble has agreed to play with the Philadelphia 76ers summer league team after going undrafted in Thursday night’s NBA draft, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.

On a night when fellow Upper Marlboro native Markelle Fultz was selected first overall by Philadelphia, Trimble didn’t hear his name called among the 60 selections on Thursday – but he nonetheless found summer work with the 76ers less than three weeks after working out for the organization.

That next step in Trimble’s young professional career comes after a long-winding process this spring, when he moved to Las Vegas to train, endured an unmemorable showing at the combine in Chicago and reportedly stood out in a number of individual workouts with teams in recent weeks.