The former captain of the basketball team at Saint Joseph's College of Maine, Craig Luschenat later played for Oxford Brookes University before he attended Golden State Warriors and Boston Celtics summer workouts in a player development capacity. Last year, Craig Luschenat worked extensively with Georges Niang at the Warriors training camp.
Niang, a 25-year-old native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, attended Iowa State University and was selected 50th overall by the Indiana Pacers in the 2016 NBA Draft. He played 23 games with the team as a rookie but spent the majority of the season with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants of the G League.
Niang was waived by the team in July 2017 but soon signed a contract with the Warriors. Just two months later, he was again waived. However, Niang signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz in January 2018, and his subsequent performance during the season and in the Las Vegas Summer League earned him a guaranteed contract from the Jazz in July.
Niang was the only member of Utah's Summer League entry to appear in all five games. He averaged 26.6 minutes per game and finished third on the team in points per game with 15.6. The 6-foot-8, 230-pound power forward also led the team in rebounds with 6.6 per game and finished third in assists with 3.0 per game.
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