UVA Basketball alum Kyle Guy. Photo: UVA Athletics
I’ve been writing for years how it escapes me that UVA Basketball alum Kyle Guy isn’t thriving in the NBA.
Good news on that front: he’s giving it another chance.
Guy, who spent the 2024-2025 season on the coaching staff of Tony Bennett and then Ron Sanchez at Virginia, has signed a G League deal with the Indiana Pacers.
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Indiana Pacers head coach Rick Carlisle. Photo: Ric Tapia/Icon Sportswire
That’s a Virginia thing there – Rick Carlisle is the head coach of the Pacers, and former ‘Hoo Jenny Boucek is Carlisle’s top assistant.
Guy will start the season with the Pacers’ G League team in Noblesville, a town in the Indianapolis suburbs.
The Exhibit 10 contract that Guy signed can translate to $85,300 if he stays with the team for two months.
Our hope for Kyle is that Indiana will want convert the deal to either a two-way NBA/G League contract or a straight-up full-time NBA contract, because Kyle is shooting the lights out, and they have no choice.
Guy is still just 28, and just six years out of the college game – he was a 2019 second-round pick, and has spent parts of three seasons in the league.
The 6’2” guard spent the 2022 and 2023 seasons in Europe, where his minutes (20.4 per game) were limited, which you notice in his other numbers (11.2 points per game, 42.3% FG, 35.0% 3FG in 83 games).
UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom. Photo: UVA Athletics
He retired in the summer of 2024 to take the job on the staff at Virginia, then after Bennett retired, and Sanchez was not retained, following a 15-17 season for the ‘Hoos, Guy was let loose by the new UVA head coach, Ryan Odom, whose biggest screwup in taking the job was not offering Guy and another UVA alum on the Bennett/Sanchez staff, Isaiah Wilkins, positions on his new staff.
Guy landed an assistant job at Nevada on the staff of former Indiana U. legend Steve Alford, but he’s giving that up to make one more go at the NBA.