USC Basketball: How To Watch Ex-Trojan Drew Peterson's Summer League Game Thursday

Your USC Trojans are a bit underrepresented in this year's NBA Summer League action, but former combo forward Drew Peterson is doing his darnedest to pick up the slack for the dearth of other cardinal and gold alumni at this level.

After going undrafted last month, the 6'8" swingman inked an Exhibit 10 training camp deal with the Miami Heat, who have a knack for recognizing under-appreciated young talent.

Peterson spent his first two seasons of NCAA eligibility at Rice University in Houston before transferring to the Pac-12 powerhouse. He was an All-Pac-12 First Teamer during his final two seasons of college. In 2021-22, he averaged 12.4 points on .467/.412/.717 shooting splits, 6.2 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 0.8 blocks and 0.7 steals across 34 contests for a 26-8 Trojans team. In 2022-23, Peterson logged averages of 13.9 points on a .442/.358/.752 slash line, 6.2 rebounds, 4.3 dimes, 1.1 steals and 0.8 blocks per bout for a somewhat disappointing 22-11 squad that didn't make it out of the Round of 64.

Considered a string bean stretch four with a decent handle and jumper, Peterson has a slight chance of making Miami's standard roster this fall, though the likelier outcome is still that he joins the team's NBAGL club, the Sioux Falls Skyforce, as an affiliate player.

Tonight, Drew Peterson's Miami Heat will try to do what they did in the playoffs this past spring, topple the Milwaukee Bucks, at 2:30 p.m. PT on NBA TV.