Former Clemson standout Ian Schieffelin has landed on an NBA roster, with the Miami Heat announcing Friday that they signed the forward.
Schieffelin is one of four rookies on the Heat’s official roster, joining Ryan Conwell, Tre Donaldson and J’Vonne Hadley, according to the team’s website.
The move comes after Schieffelin finished a summer with Miami’s Summer League group, where he played in five games between the California Classic and Las Vegas Summer League. He put up 8.4 points and 3.6 rebounds per game while shooting 46.7% from the floor and 42.9% from three on 2.8 attempts a night. His top showing came against the Milwaukee Bucks, when he scored 16 points, grabbed four rebounds and blocked two shots in 18 minutes.
Schieffelin’s path to this point has been anything but ordinary. Before returning to basketball full-time, he spent 2025 as a tight end for Clemson Football.
Ahead of the season opener against LSU, he was arrested on a DUI charge that was later dropped and reduced to reckless driving. Dabo Swinney suspended him for the opener, but Schieffelin still played in five games, logging 20 snaps and finishing with two catches for 10 yards.
Most of his Clemson legacy, though, was built on the basketball side. He was named Second-team All-ACC in 2024-25 and won the ACC’s Most Improved Player award in 2023-24.
As a true freshman, the 6-foot-7, 265-pound forward was used sparingly, starting just 7 of 30 games and averaging 11.6 minutes. His role expanded as a sophomore, when he started 22 games and played nearly 20 minutes per contest, finishing with 5.5 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.
His biggest leap came in his junior season, when he became a full-time starter and turned in the kind of numbers that made him impossible to ignore. Across 36 starts, Schieffelin averaged 10.1 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.2 assists while shooting 56/47/73. That year also featured his best outing of the season during Clemson’s Elite Eight run - the program’s first since 1980 - when he posted 18 points, 11 rebounds and two assists in an 89-82 loss to Alabama.
He followed that with his most productive season as a senior, playing a career-high 33.7 minutes per game and averaging 12.4 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.7 assists on 50/34/74 shooting splits.
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