Departing Kansas State senior guard Tylor Perry and former Wildcat Nae’Qwan Tomlin got their shot at a professional basketball career last week, signing as undrafted free agents with the Toronto Raptors and the Cleveland Cavaliers respectively.
Perry signed Exhibition-10 deal with the Raptors, while it’s unclear as of press time what kind of contract Tomlin landed.
An Exhibit 10 contract is a one-year, minimum salary NBA contract with a specific Exhibit 10 attachment built into it and no other bonuses. Exhibit 10 attachments allow the NBA team to convert a player’s one-year, minimum contract into a two-way contract, but this must occur prior to the start of the regular season. These one-year deals are often non-guaranteed, which lets NBA teams waive the player and remove their cap hit from the team payroll.
Both will be part of their respective teams’ Summer League squads, which play in the NBA 2K25 Summer League in Las Vegas from July 12-22.
Toronto is scheduled to play 4 games, starting July 13 vs. the Oklahoma City Thunder and continuing July 14 vs. the Denver Nuggets, July 17 vs. the Utah Jazz and July 19 vs. the Miami Heat. The championship rounds run Saturday-Monday, July 20-22.
Cleveland plays the Magic on July 12, Milwaukee on July 14, Golden State on July 17 and Los Angeles on July 18.
A 5-foot-11, 180-pound guard from Fort Coffee, Okla., Perry spent one season at K-State, earning All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors after leading the Wildcats in several categories, including scoring (519), 3-point field goals made (93), free throws (160), assists (148) and minutes (2,238), while starting all 34 games.
He scored in double figures in a team-best 24 games with 11 20-point performances. For the season, he averaged a team-best 15.3 points, 3.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 36.4 minutes per game.
Perry scored nearly 2,500 points during his college career (2,490 points), which included stints at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College (2019-21), North Texas (2021-23) and K-State (2023-24). He posted double figures in 81 of his 101 career games at the Division I level with 30 20-point efforts and one 30-point performance. He led those teams to a combined 128-40 (.762) record with 4 20-win seasons, one NJCAA National Championship (2021), one NIT Championship (2023) and two conference titles (2021 KJCCC, 2022 C-USA).
Tomlin, a Harlem, New York native, came to K-State from Chipola College in Florida. As a junior, he led K-State in blocks and dunks while ranking second in rebounding and steals as the Wildcats fought their way to the Elite Eight round of the NCAA Tournament.
Following his dismissal from the team mid-season following an arrest in Aggieville for disorderly conduct, he transferred to Memphis where he played the final 21 games of the season. He averaged 14 points, six rebounds and 1.1 blocks in 26.9 minutes per game.
