Pull out your NBA CBA handbooks and consult your cap experts. Roughly 50 players signed something dubbed Exhibit 10 contracts this year. The lingo elicited countless explanations across basketball beats. All that matters is that Tyus Battle earned a low-risk chance to show he belongs with the Minnesota Timberwolves after departing the Syracuse Orange.
Battle did not get selected on NBA Draft night, but that did that surprise many. He last drew mention on draft boards at the turn into his junior season. The sanctimony and coverage of draft night is an important milestone in a basketball career — you saw the many tears.