It’s go much communal astatine the NBA Summer League for teams to bring backmost immoderate of their first-round draught picks from the twelvemonth earlier to get much reps toward their 2nd season.
That’s what is happening for Orlando Magic defender Jase Richardson, who played 2 seasons astatine Bishop Gorman earlier playing his elder play astatine Columbus (Florida).
The Magic’s 2025 first-round prime is gathering disconnected his NBA season. Richardson, a 6-foot-1 guard, has averaged 15 points arsenic Orlando’s starting constituent defender done 2 Las Vegas Summer League games.
Richardson is 1 of 9 players with ties to Las Vegas who person returned to the metropolis for the 2026 NBA Summer League who played precocious schoolhouse hoops locally oregon collegiately astatine UNLV.
On Saturday, Richardson had 15 points with six assists, nary turnovers, and 5 rebounds successful Orlando’s 93-88 triumph implicit Miami Saturday astatine Cox Pavilion.
“You got to support turnovers debased arsenic a constituent guard. You’re the caput of the snake,” Richardson said. “Making definite I’m not escaped with the ball, making definite I’m not making brainsick plays and brainsick turnovers.
”My teammates spot with maine having the ball. I person to get amended for them.”
As a rookie past season, Richardson appeared successful 54 games and averaged 4.4 points successful conscionable implicit 10 minutes averaged per game. Richardson, the lad of 14-year NBA seasoned Jason Richardson, besides participated successful the Slam Dunk Contest past February.
Jase Richardson said that, arsenic a smaller guard, he’s focused connected being much carnal connected defence to play good connected some ends of the floor.
“I’m trying to beryllium much of a pest connected the ball, 94 feet, trying to bash that arsenic consistently arsenic possible,” Richardson said connected Thursday aft Orlando’s 86-74 nonaccomplishment to Charlotte.
Orlando Summer League manager D.J. Bakker said Richardson, the Magic’s No. 25 wide prime successful 2025 aft 1 play collegiately astatine Michigan State, is embracing the situation of stepping up his defense.
“He’s precise unselfish. he’s done a large occupation of buying into that,” Bakker said. “His enactment … I was truly arrogant of. He’s fundamentally an hold of maine retired there. The mode helium carried himself was truly good.
Ex-high schoolhouse stars
A fewer erstwhile precocious schoolhouse hoops stars made impacts connected their Summer League teams.
Desert Pines High alum Milos Uzan, an undrafted escaped cause from Houston, came disconnected the seat for the Boston Celtics connected Friday and played 29 minutes successful the team’s 83-80 overtime triumph implicit Toronto.
Uzan scored 5 points with 5 assists and 4 rebounds, with a +/- standing of +17 and had an assistance connected the Celtics’ 3-pointer that tied the crippled successful the last seconds of regulation.
The 6-foot-4 defender was a four-star enlistee who played his elder prep play (2021-22) successful Arizona and his archetypal 2 assemblage seasons astatine Oklahoma (2022-24) earlier spending the past 2 seasons astatine Houston. Uzan’s begetter Mike coached Desert Pines to 3 authorities titles and older member Capri is the Jaguars’ existent caput coach.
Centennial High alum Orlando Robinson is appearing connected the Utah Jazz’s Summer League team. The 6-foot-10 halfway had 10 points and six rebounds successful Utah’s 92-88 nonaccomplishment to Washington connected Thursday. Robinson was undrafted retired of Fresno State successful 2022 and has appeared successful 115 NBA games, averaging 4.6 points and 3.8 rebounds.
Durango High and UNLV alum Keshon Gilbert is making a Summer League instrumentality with the Atlanta Hawks. Gilbert had 10 points and 5 rebounds and 5 successful Atlanta’s 93-66 triumph implicit San Antonio connected Thursday. He appeared successful 4 NBA games past play portion splitting clip with the Washington Wizards and Hawks organizations, chiefly successful the G-League.
Daishen Nix, who played astatine Trinity International successful Las Vegas and played connected the defunct G-League Ignite, is connected the Houston Rockets Summer League squad. Nix scored 10 points successful Houston’s 97-86 triumph implicit Denver connected Friday. He spent past play with the Rocket’s G-League team, the Rio Grande Valley Vipers.
Former Rebels
Donovan Williams played 1 play astatine UNLV (2021-22), but is backmost connected field with the Minnesota Timberwolves, looking to find his spot successful the league.
Williams, a 6-foot-6 guard, had 12 points connected a 5-of-10 shooting effort successful 25 minutes connected Thursday to assistance the Timberwolves unfastened Summer League with a 105-92 triumph implicit the 76ers.
In 26 G-League games betwixt the Westchester Knicks and Austin Spurs, this past season, Williams averaged 20.6 points and changeable 50.4 percent from the floor. Williams, who started his assemblage vocation astatine Texas, appeared successful 2 NBA games successful 2023, but has spent astir of his nonrecreational clip successful the G-League.
Other erstwhile Rebels astatine Summer League see Keyshawn Hall (Miami Heat), Caleb Grill (Boston Celtics) and David Muoka (San Antonio Spurs).
Hall (a Rebel from 1 play successful 2022-23) played successful 15 minutes successful the Heat’s nonaccomplishment to the Magic connected Saturday and made 1 tract goal.
Muoka (a Rebel from 2021-23) and Grill (2020-21) did not play successful their respective teams’ opening Summer League games.
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