{"id":14771,"date":"2025-07-23T01:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14771\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:18:08","slug":"jazzs-kyle-filipowski-earns-nba-summer-league-mvp-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/14771\/","title":{"rendered":"Jazz&#8217;s Kyle Filipowski earns NBA Summer League MVP honors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"023d339f-b36c-3cdc-9a20-9e148fdefa63\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4684793\/kyle-filipowski\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Filipowski<\/a> became the first <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"77cea2fb-1388-b7c8-d171-2e72b3aecbfb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/utah\/utah-jazz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Utah Jazz<\/a> player to earn most valuable player honors in the NBA Summer League on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Filipowski, a 6-foot-11 forward out of <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c4430c6c-5998-47d5-7c45-1cdb7ca0befc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/150\/duke-blue-devils\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Duke<\/a>, averaged a league-leading 29.3 points per contest over three games while adding 7.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists. He shot 56.1% from the field and 39.1% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>His best summer league performance came against <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"8aef8547-32f5-0943-a1de-e734567674cc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/team\/_\/name\/sa\/san-antonio-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio<\/a> on July 14th when he finished with 35 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45784931\/kon-knueppel-scores-21-points-hornets-hold-kings-win-first-nba-summer-league-title\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/r1521561_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/45763820\/2025-nba-summer-league-superlatives-cooper-flagg-dylan-harper\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753233488_596_r1520501_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s hoping to use his summer league experience as a springboard for the role he wants to play with the Jazz in his second NBA season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously it&#8217;s different in summer league versus (the regular season),&#8221; Filipowski said. &#8220;I&#8217;m just trying to be myself out there right now. However that translates to the season, that&#8217;s how it&#8217;s going to be. I&#8217;m going to make the most of it in that way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Filipowski appeared in 72 games in his rookie campaign with Utah, making 27 starts. He averaged 9.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists in 21.2 minutes per game. By season&#8217;s end, Filipowski was one of only two NBA rookies to total more than 650 points, 400 rebounds and 100 assists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY &#8212; Kyle Filipowski became the first Utah Jazz player to earn most valuable player honors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-14771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}