UNI's Jeremy Morgan lands summer league invite with NBA champion Warriors

Dargan Southard | The Des Moines Register

Jeremy Morgan’s long night of waiting Thursday didn’t lead to an NBA Draft selection, but the former Northern Iowa standout soon found another route.

Morgan will join the Golden State Warriors' summer league team, the UNI basketball Twitter account tweeted early Friday morning.

. @jmodashow20 will play for the world champ Golden State Warriors summer league team. Congrats J! pic.twitter.com/X6ulPF6Hx1 — UNI Basketball (@UNImbb) June 23, 2017

Morgan becomes the third Panther in the last three seasons to join the summer league as an undrafted free agent. Point guard Wes Washpun joined the Los Angeles Clippers after the 2016 draft and just finished his first season in the G League (formerly the NBA Developmental League), while former MVC player of the year Seth Tuttle joined the Miami Heat’s summer league squad after going unselected in 2015. Tuttle didn’t make an NBA roster but just finished a successful year in Belgium.

The Iowa City West product did it all for UNI in his senior season, leading the Panthers in points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks per game en route to second-team all-MVC honors and the conference’s all-defensive team.

Over the last seven weeks, Morgan had workouts for the San Antonio Spurs (May 3), Houston Rockets (May 18), Chicago Bulls (June 5), Orlando Magic (June 10) and Minnesota Timberwolves (June 16), which generated some late steam leading up to the draft. Multiple outlets, including ESPN and Sporting News, pegged him as a late second-round pick this week.

That didn’t happen, but Morgan now still has his shot to make an NBA roster.

Dargan Southard covers preps, recruiting, Iowa and UNI athletics for the Iowa City Press-Citizen, The Des Moines Register and HawkCentral.com. Email him at msouthard@gannett.com or follow him on Twitter at @Dargan_Southard.