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Late on Wednesday night, it was reported by 2 Ways10 Days co-founder Chris Reichert that the Chicago Bulls had signed former Maryland center Diamond Stone to a partially-guaranteed two-year contract with a guarantee of $50,000.

Stone, who only played 24 total minutes in the NBA with the Los Angeles Clippers last season while spending much of his time in the G-League, did show some ability to be a solid big man during his stints with the Santa Cruz Warriors and Salt Lake City Stars last year.

In 13 games with those two G-League teams — due to the fact that the Clippers didn’t have their own G-League affiliate at the time — Stone averaged 16.1 points and seven rebounds per contest.

Being told the guarantee is $50K, so he's eligible to be an affiliate player with Windy City Bulls if he doesn't make 15-man roster — Chris Reichert (@Chris_Reichert) September 14, 2017

Dakota Schmidt of SB Nation’s Ridiculous Upside just hit on Stone’s potential and the question surrounding why he became a free agent after just one season at 19 years old with the Clippers last year.

It’s a curious case, seeing as Stone was as high as third overall in a early Draft Express mock draft for the 2016 draft and a legitimate five-star recruit at 6-foot-10, 250 pounds. He’s had some questions surrounding his maturity and came out to enter the draft after just one season where he had to battle for playing time at Maryland on a good team. It’s not a bad idea to sign Stone. He did score 31 points in his G-League debut last season, so there’s obviously something there.

For the Bulls, it’s not much of a risk at all to sign Stone to a deal that’s not fully guaranteed over the next couple of seasons. As Bulls insider Sean Highkin pointed out on Twitter after the report broke from Reichert, Stone would make 18 players reporting to Bulls training camp. That number is of course, the Bulls do decide to sign Nikola Mirotic to a new contract.