Point guard Erick Green fought through an exhaustive schedule in the last year to prove he belongs on an NBA roster — the Nuggets’ roster — and now he’s played his way in.

Green will sign a contract with the Nuggets, a source confirmed, and will be with the team when training camp starts in the fall. Green was a second-round pick in the 2013 NBA draft out of Virginia Tech. His rights were traded to the Nuggets from Utah but he did not latch on. He played last season in Italy.

The Nuggets had a need for a third point guard, and the high-scoring Green is well-equipped to fit that role. With him in the fold, the Nuggets now have 14 guaranteed contracts on the team. The deal was first reported by Eurohoops.

Green has a background in scoring, and that’s just what he showed with the Nuggets’ summer league team this month. He averaged 16.6 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.6 assists per game as one of three players the Nuggets wanted to take a long look at to decide whether a roster spot was warranted.

Green knew the stakes before play began, and vowed not to alter his game in order to fit anyone else’s idea of what he should be on the court.

“I kept hearing ‘He’s only a scorer, he wasn’t a point guard,’ ” said Green of his experience a year ago. “In my head I was saying I’m going to go out here and show everybody I can facilitate, I’m not just a scorer. Honestly, that hurt me more than anything. Instead of just being myself. If you don’t like me for who I am, and I’m a scoring point guard, then maybe I don’t belong. But there’s a lot of scoring point guards (in the NBA). I think I can be one as well.”

Green started at point guard and shot 50 percent from the field. He nailed 33 percent from the 3-point line and made 80 percent of his free throws.

Christopher Dempsey: cdempsey@denverpost.com or twitter.com/dempseypost