BYU men’s basketball fans could soon see a familiar face at Salt Lake City Stars games.
The Stars, the G League affiliate for the Utah Jazz, have acquired the rights to former BYU center Yoeli Childs. He was acquired in a trade with Washington Wizards affiliate Capital City Go-Go in exchange for guard Yogi Ferrell and a 2022 first-round draft pick, the Stars announced Thursday.
The trade means Childs would suit up for the Stars if he returns to the G League.
Childs played four seasons with the Cougars after playing his high school ball at Bingham High. In his senior year at BYU — some of which he spent injured — he averaged 22.2 points and 9.0 rebounds and 2.0 assists per game.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of Childs’s development was this 3-point shooting. He shot 48.9% from that distance his senior year — a massive improvement on the 32.3% clip he shot the year before.
Childs went undrafted in 2020 but signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Washington Wizards. He was waived less than a month later. He played 12 games and started five with the Erie Skyhawks — now the Birmingham Squadron — of the G League in the 2020-21 season. He averaged 8.9 points and 4.8 rebounds in 20.1 minutes per game there.
A team in Germany, MHP RIESEN Ludwigsbur, announced last September that it had signed Childs.
