USC Aiken’s basketball teams won’t be the only Pacers with fan support in the area this coming season.

The NBA’s Indiana Pacers, who recently won the Eastern Conference championship and played in the NBA Finals, will draw some new eyeballs from the CSRA – not to mention Greenville, North Carolina – after signing RJ Felton as an undrafted free agent.

Felton, a three-time Aiken Standard Player of the Year who split his high school days between North Augusta and Aiken before a decorated career at East Carolina University, is expected to be signed to an Exhibit 10 contract, league sources told the Indianapolis Star. 

An Exhibit 10 deal is a one-year, minimum salary deal that is non-guaranteed, and it is usually used by teams looking to add to their G League and Summer League rosters. Teams can retain the player on the minimum deal, convert it to a Two-Way contract (which allows the player to be a member of both the NBA team and its G League affiliate) or waive the player with no cap hit.

Felton burst onto the NBA radar with his outstanding performance at the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament despite being a last-minute invite. He turned that performance into invitations to private workouts with a host of NBA teams, including Indiana.

His name fills the East Carolina record books, with the 6-foot-3 senior guard finishing his college career as a unanimous first-team All-American Athletic Conference selection.

Felton averaged 18.8 points and 6.4 rebounds per game as a senior for the Pirates, and on April 3 he announced that he was declaring for the NBA Draft.

Indiana, which recently lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in seven games in the NBA Finals, used the 54th pick in the draft to select Liberty guard Taelon Peter. The Pacers also traded for the rights to Marquette guard Kam Jones, who was picked 38th overall by the San Antonio Spurs.