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Assistant T.J. Saint filled his role on the front of the bench during those two games and was seen with a clipboard leading huddles during timeouts. Saint was the Knicks’ Summer League coach this year and will continue to be on the front of the bench for games that Jent misses, according to league sources.
Raheem Palmer: I can confirm this is 100% true. He was in Vegas for summer league with Amile who was coaching the summer league team. He also had a camp he was throwing. People want there to be beef with him and Jaylen but Tatum had absolutely nothing to do with this trade and was just as shocked as everyone else. Kalshi Hoops: Jayson Tatum says he had no idea the Celtics were trading Jaylen Brown and was surprised they traded him to Philly: "Bro we was in Vegas, I just got done playing pickup. Sham walked over. He hand me the towel. He like, 'Yo, put this over your face. Don't react. They just traded him (Jaylen).' I'm like, oh sh*t. I'm like, where? He said Philly. I said, you traded him down the street? So I was just as much caught off guard as the rest of the world.
Blake Murphy: The Raptors have signed Jalen Celestine. Another camp invite type with an eye toward 905. Was in Summer League with the team.
Varun Shankar: Rockets announce they've signed Cameron Mathews. It's an Exhibit 10 deal, according to a person with knowledge of the deal. Matthews played for Houston in Summer League + and for G League affiliate last season.
Former NBA Champion Jeremy Lin also joins ESPN’s roster after contributing to the network’s coverage of the 2026 NBA Finals and NBA Summer League. Lin will appear across ESPN’s studio programming, including NBA Today.
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Jon Chepkevich: NEWS: Jorge Diaz-Graham has agreed to an Exhibit-10 contract with the Dallas Mavericks, sources tell DraftExpress. The skillful 6’10” Canary Islander was the first pick of the G League International Draft and finished NBA Summer League on a high note with two double-doubles.
You think Hornets owners Rick Schnall and Gabe Plotkin didn’t notice? It was more than circumstantial evidence that their $3 billion purchase of the franchise was worth every comma. Give these fans a Summer League crumb, much less a play-in game and a remade arena, and they’ll fork over their hard-earned cash. But it also runs deeper than that, back to the fan base’s hurt feelings, back to a season-ticket membership meeting in February 2024, six months after their purchase, when Schnall and Plotkin got, well, zero-to-60’d.
Blake Murphy: Raptors are bringing Jamarion Sharp into camp. Sharp had been with them for Summer League before signing a 2-way with Clippers; Raps had 2-way interest at the time. He’ll compete for one of those spots now. 7-foot-5 centre was 25-26 G League Defensive Player of the Year.
The NBA will officially experiment with an innovative single-shot foul protocol and advanced sensor-embedded basketballs during the upcoming Summer League showcase events. Under these newly implemented officiating guidelines, any defensive shooting violation or team penalty scenario that awarded multiple trips to the charity stripe will now be decided exclusively by a lone bonus attempt. A successful conversion from the foul line will automatically grant the full point value of the original shooting infraction, meaning a hacked long-range perimeter shooter can secure three points with just one swish. However, traditional free-throw regulations will immediately return to govern the final two minutes of the fourth quarter and any ensuing overtime periods.
Clemente Almanza: Mark Daigneault on Aday Mara’s conditioning improvement: “It's really not an indictment on him in Summer League. It's when you're 7’3 and you're coming off of the draft process, which you're flying commercial flights all over the place. You're not in a consistent schedule.”
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Justin Martinez: Mark Daigneault on Aday Mara’s conditioning: “He worked really hard from the end of Summer League until he came back to Oklahoma City and then to the start of training camp. That’s a lot of days that he’s stacked up with his head down on his body and on his conditioning, and it showed tonight.”
Jason Beede: More news: After waiving Mike Sharavjamts, the #Magic are signing Johnell Davis to an Exhibit 10 contract and plan to waive him tonight, @orlandosports learned. Both players spent Las Vegas Summer League with Orlando, and now they’ll likely head to Osceola in the G League.
There is clear belief in Mohamed Diawara’s development, as the Knicks made it a priority to bring him back with a four-year, $11.2 million contract this past offseason. He struggled in summer league, however, where he also suffered an injury to his left ring finger that required a minor procedure. He’s fine now and already showing signs of growth. A Year 2 breakout could cement Diawara as a Knicks mainstay. “Last year, you could see he was a little jittery when he was out there,” Brown said Saturday, “because he didn’t quite know what to do, and he knew when he did it, he just had to go hard. So a lot of times, he would just play at one speed. There’s a comfort level now, so his cadence is better, especially offensively. His ability to communicate on the floor is at a little bit of a higher level, because he has a better feel not just offensively, but defensively — not just what he should do, but what he should be telling his teammates to do, especially if he’s on the backside or bottom side of the defense, because he sees everything in front of him. “He’s one of those players that needs to take a step forward.”
Michael Scotto: Sources: After missing two seasons due to injury, Seth Lundy has agreed to a camp deal with the Mavs. The former Hawks and Clippers two-way guard averaged 20 points on 52% shooting and 44% from 3PT range, 3.8 rebounds, 2.3 assists & 1.8 steals in four Raptors Summer League games.