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Forward · 2018–19

Tyler Cavanaugh

Cavanaugh split his college years between Wake Forest and George Washington, where he was MVP of the 2016 NIT championship run and averaged 18.3 points as a senior. He impressed enough on a two-way contract in Atlanta to earn a multi-year deal, then signed a two-way with the Jazz in August 2018, appearing in 11 NBA games alongside time with the Salt Lake City Stars.

The son of a Hamilton College player who also went pro overseas, Cavanaugh followed the family route to Europe — Alba Berlin, Tenerife in Spain, EuroLeague basketball with Zalgiris Kaunas, and since 2023, Bahcesehir Koleji in Istanbul.

HOW HE CAME & WENTUtah signed him to a two-way contract on August 1, 2018, splitting the season with the Salt Lake City Stars. Those 11 games were his last in the NBA.

Full name
Tyler Robert Cavanaugh
Utah Jazz tenure
2018–19
Position
Forward
Born
1994, Buffalo, New York
Weight
238 lb (108 kg)
College
George Washington
Drafted
undrafted
Signature in the archive 2018-19 Panini Optic Silver Prizm Signature Series

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With the Jazz

TYLER CAVANAUGH · 2018–19 · PER GAME
SEASONTEAMGMPGPPGRPGAPGSPGBPGFG%3P%FT%
2018–19UTA113.50.80.70.10.00.0.300.2001.000
JAZZ TOTAL1 SEASON113.50.80.70.10.00.0.300.2001.000

Season by season, regular season, with this franchise only. More info: Basketball-Reference ↗  ·  Wikipedia ↗

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TYLER CAVANAUGH · 8 NOTES
  • Was an All-Atlantic 10 forward at George Washington.
  • Continued his career in top European leagues after the NBA.
  • Won the 2016 NIT with George Washington and took home tournament MVP honors.
  • Became just the second player ever to turn an original two-way contract into a standard NBA deal, and the first to land a multi-year one.
  • Eight days into his NBA career he scored 16 points and made all four of his threes against a New Orleans front line of Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins.
  • He finished that rookie season with the fourth-best three-point percentage among all NBA rookies.
  • Shooting 48 percent from three in 2021, third best in Spain, he helped an underdog Tenerife side reach its first ACB semifinal.
  • He was Zalgiris Kaunas' first signing of the 2021 offseason, drawn partly by the chance to work again with coach Martin Schiller.