LAS VEGAS — 2025 NBA Summer season League in Sin Metropolis is formally a wrap, as Kon Knueppel and the Charlotte Hornets downed the Sacramento Kings 83-78 on Sunday night time’s championship sport.
Knueppel earned the official Summer season League MVP honors with a 21-point efficiency on 8-of-14 capturing, though the award sometimes goes to the very best participant on the successful crew and never the summer time’s largest star.
That’s the place we are available. Ballislife has been monitoring Summer season League extensively via our “Summer season League Standouts” sequence the previous few weeks, and now it’s time to unveil BIL’s official MVP and All-Summer season League crew.
MVP: Kyle Filipowski, Utah Jazz
Filipowski received extra NBA taking part in time in his rookie yr than most gamers who received despatched to Las Vegas this summer time. That was each bit obvious with the 21-year-old middle’s efficiency in his three appearances on the showcase.
Filipowski led the Summer season League in scoring at 29.3 factors per sport, along with grabbing 7.7 rebounds and dispensing 2.3 assists. Filipowski’s stat line was anchored by a 32-point efficiency towards the eventual champion Hornets on July 11 and a 35-point, 11-rebound double-double towards the Spurs on July 14. The Duke product shot 56 % from the sector general and 39 % from 3-point vary on a mean of seven.7 makes an attempt per sport from past the arc.
All-Summer season League crew
G: Jordan Miller, Los Angeles Clippers
Miller has turn into a Summer season League cult hero over the past two seasons. As Clippers insider Justin Russo identified on BlueSky final night time, Miller has scored 19+ factors in 10 consecutive Summer season League video games. Miller averaged 22 factors, 7.8 rebounds and a pair of.6 assists on this go-around and had a legit case of being named Summer season League MVP if it weren’t for Filipowski.
G: Javon Freeman-Liberty, Chicago Bulls
The Chicago Bulls had a couple of representatives on the Summer season League standouts record this previous week, together with Javion Younger and Yuki Kawamura. Freeman-Liberty was additionally featured, and finally, he stood out essentially the most in his 5 appearances. The Chicago native averaged 21 factors, six rebounds and 4.3 assists per sport. Freeman-Liberty’s 22-point, nine-rebound, six-assist efficiency towards the Jazz on Friday secured his spot on the All-Summer season League crew forward of Oklahoma Metropolis’s Nique Clifford, who appeared like a shoo-in earlier than a statistical drop off over the weekend.
G/F: Terrance Shannon, Minnesota Timberwolves
Shannon had arguably essentially the most well-rounded efficiency at Summer season League. The second-year Illinois product averaged 22.7 factors, six rebounds and 5 assists, along with 1.5 steals. The Timberwolves went 3-0 whereas Shannon was within the lineup and he was the crew’s high performer in all three video games. Shannon’s finest efficiency was on opening night time, July 10, the place he tallied 20 factors, six rebounds and 9 assists in a 98-91 win over the New Orleans Pelicans.
F: David Jones-Garcia, San Antonio Spurs
Jones-Garcia, like Miller, is a reputation that may ring within the annals of Summer season League after following a powerful outing final summer time with one other constant efficiency in Las Vegas. Jones-Garcia averaged 21.8 factors, 6.2 rebounds and three.8 assists for San Antonio. He was clearly the crew’s best participant all through the 10-day stretch and one of the productive gamers in the complete area.
C: Kyle Filipowski, Utah Jazz
See MVP part above.
