Former Alabama guard Aaron Estrada was invited to the G League Elite Camp on Monday, per ESPN NBA Draft analyst Jonathan Givony.
“NEWS: Alabama’s Aaron Estrada has been invited to the G League Elite Camp, a supply instructed ESPN,” DraftExpress (Givony) posted on X (previously referred to as Twitter. “Estrada was a two-time CAA participant of the yr at Hofstra and helped information Alabama to the NCAA Last 4.”
Estrada declared for the NBA Draft on April 16 after taking part in faculty basketball for 5 years at 4 totally different faculties.
At 23 years previous and a fifth-year faculty participant, Estrada was the oldest participant on the Alabama crew. He was capable of be a pacesetter and a mentor to most of the youthful gamers, with the Crimson Tide rostering 5 freshmen who had by no means performed faculty basketball earlier than.
Estrada completed the season as Alabama’s second-leading scorer, averaging 13.4 factors, 5.5 rebounds, and 4.7 assists per sport on the season. He had a plentiful quantity of notable performances, together with a triple-double towards Ole Miss, solely the third participant in Alabama historical past to take action. However his impression on the crew went additional than simply his means to stuff the stat sheet.
A local of Woodbury, New Jersey, Estrada started his profession at in-state St. Peter’s. He solely spent one season with the Peacocks earlier than transferring as much as high-major, touchdown at Oregon for his sophomore season. He did not stick in Eugene, taking part in solely 9 video games and averaging lower than quarter-hour a sport.
He then went again right down to the mid-major stage to Hofstra, and never solely discovered his footing, however thrived, being named the CAA participant of the yr two consecutive seasons taking part in for the Satisfaction. Due to an additional COVID yr, Estrada entered the switch portal for his closing yr of eligibility and landed in Tuscaloosa, hoping to do one thing he’d by no means carried out earlier than, play within the NCAA Event.
