Center Luka Garza is the University of Iowa’s all-time leading scorer. It’s been fits and starts in his three-year professional basketball career thus far, but a two-year guaranteed NBA contract he signed last month with the Minnesota Timberwolves provides some security and a reason to continue to work to improve.
Luka Garza, the consensus men’s basketball National Player of the Year as an Iowa senior in 2021, has signed a two-year contract with the NBA’s Minnesota Timberwolves. He could have opted for free agency.
Luka Garza has been persistent in his quest to get a standard NBA playing contract, and Thursday was the day. The Minnesota Timberwolves converted the former Iowa National Player of the Year’s two-way deal to a standard contract.
While most two-way players divide their time between the NBA G-League and the NBA. Garza has played mostly with the Minnesota Timberwolves this season.
Iowa’s 2021 National Player of the Year hopes for a second season with the Minnesota Timberwolves after opening a few eyes last season, including his own.
Former Iowa All-America center Luka Garza will sign a two-way contract with the Minnesota Timberwolves. He will spend some of the season in Minnesota, some in Des Moines with the G League Iowa Wolves.
Two former Iowa men’s basketball standouts signed NBA contracts this week: Luka Garza with the Minnesota Timberwolves and Joe Wieskamp with the San Antonio Spurs.
Former Iowa star Luka Garza was let go by the Detroit Pistons earlier this week and will now try to impress the Portland Trail Blazers in the NBA Summer League.
The Athletic reported that the Detroit Pistons aren’t picking up their option for the second year of Luka Garza’s two-year contract with the team.
Here are the NBA/G League stats of the three Iowa products in the pros.
Luka Garza, Iowa’s all-time leading men’s basketball scorer, had his No. 55 retired in a halftime ceremony that also celebrated Chuck Darling, Roy Marble and Murray Wier.
Iowa men’s basketball will try to bump off Michigan State after a halftime ceremony celebrating Luka Garza, Chuck Darling, Roy Marble and Murray Wier.
Iowa announced it will formally retire Luka Garza’s No. 55 at halftime during a game against Michigan State on Feb. 22. It will also retire the jerseys of Chuck Darling, Roy Marble and Murray Wier.
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