Alabama’s Aaron Estrada agrees to Exhibit-10 deal with Detroit Pistons: Report

Alabama basketball’s Aaron Estrada went unpicked in the 2024 NBA Draft, but will continue his basketball career at the professional level anyway. Estrada agreed to an Exhibit 10 deal with the NBA’s Detroit Piston on Friday, according to a report from Draftexpress.com’s Jon Chepkevich.

An Exhibit 10 deal is a minimum-salary, non-guaranteed agreement that allows the team to move the contract to a two-way deal before the season starts. If the player is waived to the G-League and spends 60 days with that team, they will earn a bonus.

For Estrada, that likely means he will be with the Pistons for preseason and the NBA summer league, before a possible waiver to the G-League. Detroit’s G-League affiliate is the Motor City Cruise.

Estrada spent one season playing at Alabama, transferring in from Hofstra as a graduate student. Before the season, he said UA head coach Nate Oats included the chance to develop for the professional game as part of his recruiting pitch.

“He proposed to me that his goal for being my coach is to get me to that next level,” Estrada said at SEC basketball media days. “He said that’s ultimately his goal. And a lot of coaches, no, not even a lot, no other coach that recruited me really talked about my next step, they really just talked about what I can do for them this year.”

Estrada made good in his lone season with the Crimson Tide, starting all 37 games of the 2023-24 campaign. He was a key part of Alabama’s first Final Four run in program history.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pound guard averaged 13.4 points per game for the Tide, along with 5.4 rebounds and 4.6 assists. He became the only player in UA’s history to rack up 490 points, 200 rebounds and 170 assists in a single season.