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Summer unofficially is over, at least for NBA fans, with the NBA 2K26 Summer League in Las Vegas and its two cousins in Utah and California wrapping up this month. No one is in a hurry to get to and beyond Labor Day Weekend, but after what we saw in the raw, sometimes frantic warm-up contests of July, a little eagerness for training camps makes a lot of sense.

In sheer statistical terms, the players who forevermore became lottery picks late last month didn’t dominate. For example, No. 1 draftee Cooper Flagg of the Dallas Mavericks ranked 14 th in scoring among th e Summer League aspirants. While New Orleans’ Derik Queen was second in rebounds , Philadelphia’s VJ Edgecombe topped the lottery guys at 3

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