Denzel Valentine

Kevin Knox.

No one tops that in the lottery surely. Also shout out Noah Essengue for one of the craziest pics in summer league history

Anthony Randolph

Markelle Fultz. His summer league clips of him pulling up confidently and fluidly from three had me deadass convinced he was gonna win an MVP one day.

Kenneth Lofton Jr

Throwback but adam Morrison came out looking like Larry Bird 30+ pt games

Carsen Edwards

JOSH SELBY

Josh Jackson at summer league had people talking crazy

Anthony Bennett 🫡

Not quite what you’re asking but THT had the lakers convinced he was their next star based on 2 good preseason games

So many. Legitimately so many. That’s why I almost never look at summer league box scores. I can’t tell you how many Pistons lit up summer league and failed.

Isaiah Mobley and Emoni Bates

Jerryd Bayless- 2008 Summer League MVP

Stanley Johnson 

Nikoloz Tskitishvili #1 - he dominated summer league and then did nothing in the regular season.

Kevin Knox looked like the second coming of Kevin Durant in summer league & was a complete bust in the NBA.

Isaac okoro

Hunter Tyson

Josh Selby.

Ranked 6th in the 2010 HS class, 49th Pick in the 2011 NBA Draft. Co-MVP of the 2012 NBA Summer League (with Damian Lillard). Waived 3 weeks before his 22nd birthday in March 2013.

“Good in summer league, bad in the NBA” is way more common than the opposite.

You also get guys that have one crazy summer league game and then do nothing the rest of the summer.

Yang Hansen

Mario Hezonja 🥲🥲

Anthony Magic Randolph 

jerryd bayless

Kobe Bufkin for the Hawks.

Marcus Banks

Jarred Bayless and Donte Greene

The guy with the Fortnite suite who played on the Knicks…I forget his name.

Dillon Jones

Kevin Knox is the one that comes to mind most recently. Josh Selby is also one. Anthony Randolph i believe was a big summer league guy. I think people felt he was snubbed by Blake Griffin as the MVP of summer league

Kevin Knox

The way this sub talked about Yang Hansen after last year’s summer league has to be studied.

Stanley Johnson looked like LeBron

MCW forever

Carsen Edwards

Cam Thomas

johnny furphy

Devin Character

Hunter Tyson

Dalton Knecht

Marcus Banks. Real Suns fans know

Hezonga looked elite

Kevin Know is summer league GOAT

I know injuries derailed his career but Lonzo ball comes to mind

All of the Bucks picks since Giannis.

TJ leaf was always really good in summer league and preseason for the pacers. Then was completely useless in the regular season

There was a Chinese fella (I’m sorry I can’t remember the name) the bucks drafted around 20 years ago that played hella smooth in the summer league and turned out to be a bust. But for a full week and a half the dude showed us solid finishing, good rebounding and sweet ass jumper. I though he was gonna be a star.

There was a Chinese fella (I’m sorry I can’t remember the name) the bucks drafted around 20 years ago that played hella smooth in the summer league and turned out to be a bust. But for a full week and a half the dude showed us solid finishing, good rebounding and sweet ass jumper. I though he was gonna be a star.

Josh Jackson

Jeremy Pargo

Glen Rice Jr was Summer League MVP and legit looked like he was going to be the third star next to Wall and Beal Wizards.

Marco Belinelli looked like the Italian Kobe. Also, Kobe was arguably Italian.

the people that say stats in summer league dont matter would all be saying guys are busts if they dont perform well to begin with. imo the key to summer league is how a guy performs at the role hes going to play, you mentioned carr and hes been hitting his open 3s and attacking closeouts. those are the type of shots hes going to get playing next to luka, so imo him producing in his expected role is good. if he was creating and just chucking then id be more worried but so far hes playing like a role player

RJ Hampton has almost been lost to time it seems ..

Donte Green

Royce White

Carsen Edwards. Between summer league and that pre season finale against Cleveland when he had a 26 point 3rd quarter and hit 8 threes in 9 minutes I was sure he was a pocket sized Steph Curry.

Ugh Lonzo Ball, he was so exciting to watch

Glen rice Jr. Us wizards fans thought we had a diamond in the rough

Wasn’t Kris Dunn one of these guys? I remember people thinking the second coming of Chris Paul at the time

Taylor fucking Hendricks evidently

This is Austin Daye erasure

Glen Rice Jr

Demetris Nichols

Stanleyyyyy Johnsonnnnnn

Kevin Knox

Anthony Morrow, I think he made SL scoring record on debut, he looked like a bench warmer in the league.

Similar destiny for Marco Belinelli, he had a very solid SL, he scored like 37 or 38 and looked like a “White Mamba” (playing like Kobe while being white), but he struggled the first couple of seasons. Anyway turned out to be a decent role player for years.

I think in general till recently, like last 19 years, it was more frequent in the past.

Kevin Knox

Randy Foye was named the very first NBA Summer League MVP in 2006 but you might struggle to even remember who he was.

Hasheem Thabeet

Like…all of them?

No one ever

Kevin Knox

Yang Hansen

Lonzo 

Jerryd Bayless

Qytel woods