Career Transactions

Went undrafted in the 2024 NBA Draft…signed by the Denver Nuggets on July 26, 2024…waived by Denver on Oct. 7, 2024…signed a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls on Feb. 19, 2025…waived by the Bulls on July 19, 2025…signed as a free agent with the HEAT on Sept. 11, 2025…the HEAT exercised the two-way conversion option in his contract on Oct. 18, 2025.

2024-25 SEASON:

Split the season between the Chicago Bulls of the NBA and the Windy City Bulls and Grand Rapid Gold of the NBA G League…came off the bench in all six NBA games in which he appeared for Chicago and averaged 1.8 points (.800 FG%, 1.000 FT%), 1.0 assists and 4.9 minutes…did not miss any games due to injury/illness but was a DNP-CD five times and missed another 15 games on G League assignments…made his NBA debut vs. Cleveland on Mar. 4, finishing with a rebound and assist in 2:23 of action…made his first basket and scored his first four NBA points at Cleveland on Apr. 8…started all 30 NBA G League regular season games in which he appeared and averaged 21.5 points (.457 FG%, .861 FT%), 7.1 assists, 4.8 rebounds, 1.93 steals and 34.5 minutes…ranked among G League leaders in steals per game (4th), assists per game (6th), free throw percentage (6th), scoring average (8th) and minutes per game (15th)…scored in double figures on 29 occasions, including 20 games with at least 20 points, four 30-point games and one 40-point game…handed out double-figure assists seven times, grabbed double-figure rebounds once and posted eight double-doubles…in 13 games with the Windy City Bulls, averaged 20.0 points (.445 FG%, .909 FT%), 6.5 assists, 4.5 rebounds, 1.62 steals and 32.6 minutes…led the team in scoring seven times and assists eight times…saw action in 17 games for the Grand Rapids Gold and averaged 22.6 points (.464 FG%, .826 FT%), 7.6 assists, 5.1 rebounds, 2.18 steals and 36.0 minutes…scored a G League career-high 40 points on 17-of-30 shooting from the field to go along with 10 assists at Capital City on Feb. 12…grabbed a G League career-high 14 rebounds and added 23 points at College Park on Jan. 23…served up a G League career-high 13 assists at Stockton on Jan. 30…appeared in 13 Tip-Off Tournament games (seven starts) with Grand Rapids and averaged 22.2 points (.494 FG%, .730 FT%), 6.8 assists, 3.6 rebounds, 1.69 steals and 33.1 minutes…scored in double figures in 12 games, including 11 where he scored at least 20 points and one 30-point game…tallied double-figure assists twice and posted two double-doubles…NBA Season Highs: four points (twice), three assists (at Philadelphia, Apr. 13), one rebound (three times) and 9:46 minutes (at Cleveland, Apr. 8).

Spent the last two years of his collegiate career at Maryland after spending the first three at Charlotte…is the sixth player since 2006 in NCAA history to have scored at least 1,000 points at two institutions…started all 67 games in which he appeared for the Terrapins and averaged 18.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, 3.6 assists, 1.30 steals and 33.2 minutes while shooting 40.9 percent from the field, 31.8 percent from three-point range and 87 percent from the foul line…voted by the media to the All-Big Ten First Team as a fifth-year senior and the All-Big Ten Second Team as a senior…twice named Big Ten Player of the Week…his free throw percentage (.900 FT%) and free throws made (198) in 2023-24 rank third and fifth respectively in Maryland’s single-season record book…his 553 points scored in 2022-23 ranks 30th all-time in the program’s single-season record book…started all 85 games for the Charlotte 49ers over his three seasons and averaged 16.7 points, 5.4 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 1.24 steals and 35.1 minutes…named First Team All-Conference USA his junior and sophomore seasons and voted the Conference USA Freshman of the Year in his first season…was the only player in Conference USA to score in double figures and play in every game for their team in 2021-22.

Full name is Dedan Jahmir Young…goes by the nicknames “JY” or “Mir”…is the son of Lesha Brewster Young…has one brother, Jabari, and two sisters, Daesha and Nylah…his uncle, David Lawrence Brewster Jr., played basketball collegiately at Towson and Richmond…graduated from Maryland with a degree in sociology…hopes to get into player development and coaching once his playing career is over…is a fan of the NFL’s Washington Commanders…cites his mother as a difference maker for raising four children as a single mother…a little known secret is that he plays the alto saxophone…endorses Under Armor…wears size 12 sneakers.