Cusworth Earns Spot on NBA Summer League Roster

According to a report in the San Francisco Chronicle, former Crimson center Brian Cusworth has been added to the Golden State Warriors’ summer league squad.

The seven-footer has spent the past five months since his collegiate career ended in training and at scout-attended workouts in a bid to latch on to an NBA roster. His season ended when Harvard’s fall semester concluded in late January.

Cusworth’s name was not called during the league’s draft night on June 28, but he will now travel to Las Vegas with a team of young Warriors and try to prove himself worthy of a free-agent contract.

Golden State coach Don Nelson is known to favor athletic big men who can run the floor and draw defenders away from the basket with shooting range—Cusworth, with surprising agility for his size, appears to fit the mold.

Cusworth posted career highs in scoring and rebounding in his limited action in 2006-07, averaging 17.4 points and 9.1 boards per contest. He also converted 51.5 percent of his field-goal attempts and blocked over two shots a game.

—JONATHAN LEHMAN