Leading the Hornets to a 6-0 showing and NBA Summer League championship, Wisconsin native Kon Knueppel was named title-game Most Valuable Player.

League is over. The Hornets won the popular and essential summer league event with an 83-78 victory against the Kings.

Kon Knueppel scored a team-high 21 points as the Charlotte Hornets started fast and downed the Sacramento Kings 83-78 on Sunday night in Las Vegas for their first NBA Summer League championship. The fourth overall pick of the 2025 NBA Draft,

Here’s how Missouri basketball grads Tamar Bates, Caleb Grill and Kobe Brown performed in this year’s NBA Summer League.

The number of rooks spotlighted for each team will vary. Every first-round pick who suited up will receive a grade. Second-rounders will be prioritized for teams without a top-30 selection. For squads without any drafted rookies whatsoever, we'll default to the newbie who is either most intriguing, played the most or both.

Second-year Rockets guard Reed Sheppard wasn’t very efficient at summer league, but he still managed to turn heads, per Michael Pina of The Ringer.

Las Vegas Summer League has become sort of the opposite: Player movement comes to a halt aside from a few restricted free-agency situations playing out, the best young players only take the court for a couple of games (if that), and the entire league unwinds from a long year.

NBA's Las Vegas Summer League is almost in the books. The nearly two-week event has showcased some of the top rookies from the 2025 draft class, second-year players and NBA hopefu