Seven UVA Basketball alums are on NBA rosters with the 2025-2026 season set to tip off Tuesday night.
The list doesn’t include 2016 alum Malcolm Brogdon, who spent the preseason with the New York Knicks, and appeared to be in line to be a rotation guy for the Eastern Conference favorites, before Brogdon announced his retirement last week.
It also doesn’t include 2024 alum Reece Beekman, who played in the preseason with the Orlando Magic, before being waived on Saturday.
Looks like Beekman will be playing for the Magic’s G League affiliate.
The G League season tips off on Nov. 7.
UVA Basketball alums in the NBA
- Ryan Dunn (2024): Phoenix Suns Dunn, a 2024 first-round pick, averaged 6.9 points and 3.6 rebounds per game as a rookie last season. The shocker: 31.1 percent from three.
- Anthony Gill (2016): Washington Wizards Gill barely plays (9.4 minutes/g over his five-year NBA career), but the front office loves him as a locker-room presence. Translation: he’s going to be a coach sometime soon.
- Sam Hauser (2021): Boston Celtics Hauser is in limbo, like everybody else with the C’s right now, as the franchise prepares to play a season without its centerpiece, Jayson Tatum. Hauser is in Year 2 of the four-year, $45 million deal that he signed after Boston won the 2024 NBA title. Don’t be surprised to see his name floated as trade bait as the Celtics look to retool for 2026-2027.
- Jay Huff (2021): Indiana Pacers Huff is coming off a career year in Memphis (5.4 ppg, 52.0% FG, 40.4% 3FG in 2024-2025), and Indiana (and coach, and UVA alum, Rick Carlisle) wanted him because the Pacers lost Myles Turner in free agency. Indiana is also in limbo this season, with star Tyrese Haliburton set to miss the season with an Achilles injury.
- De’Andre Hunter (2019): Cleveland Cavaliers Hunter, the fourth pick in the 2019 draft, has been a double-digit scorer in each of his six NBA seasons. He’ll be expected to contribute a lot for a Cleveland team whose clock is ticking.
- Ty Jerome (2019): Memphis Grizzlies Another guy coming off a career year (12.5 ppg, 3.4 assists/g, 51.6% FG, 43.9% 3FG with Cleveland in 2024-2025), Jerome will start the 2025-2026 season with his new team on the injured list. Jerome will be out at least four weeks with a high-grade right-calf strain. Here we go again with him being hurt, right? Jerome played a career-high 70 games last year; before that, he had missed 241 of a possible 400 games in his first five NBA seasons.
- Trey Murphy III (2021): New Orleans Pelicans Another career-year guy (21.2 ppg, 5.1 rebs/g, 3.5 assists/g in 2024-2025). The question, as always, with the Pelicans: will they get Zion Williamson for more than 30 games this season?
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