NBA Summer League action continued on Saturday with the second day of the California Classic, which is taking place in San Francisco and Sacramento with a pair of four-team round robins. <\/p>\n
However, the Salt Lake City Summer League also kicked off on Saturday as well.<\/p>\n
The Independence Day action featured the summer league debut of Memphis Grizzlies forward Cam Boozer, the No. 3 overall pick in this year’s draft. Oklahoma City Thunder center Aday Mara (No. 12 overall pick) and OKC guard Bennett Stirtz (No. 16 overall) also played their first summer games.<\/p>\n
Later in the afternoon, Jazz guard Darryn Peterson, the No. 2 overall pick in the NBA draft, made his summer league debut. The same went for Sacramento Kings guard Darius Acuff Jr. (No. 7 overall pick) and Atlanta Hawks guard Kingston Flemings (No. 8 overall choice).<\/p>\n
Here’s a look at how everything went down.<\/p>\n
Saturday Summer League Schedule<\/p>\n
Milwaukee Bucks 97, Warriors Blue 83 (California Classic; Sacramento, CA)<\/p>\n
Memphis Grizzlies 111, Oklahoma City Thunder 74 (Salt Lake City Summer League)<\/p>\n
Utah Jazz 103, Atlanta Hawks 102 in OT (Salt Lake City Summer League)<\/p>\n
Sacramento Kings 79, Brooklyn Nets 76 (California Classic; Sacramento, CA)<\/p>\n
Grizzlies 111, Thunder 74<\/p>\n
Boozer scored 15 points on 7-of-11 shooting alongside four points and four assists in 24 minutes to help lead the Grizzlies to a 111-74 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n
Seven Grizzlies scored in double digits, led by Olivier-Maxence Prosper’s 17 points. Javon Small contributed 11 points and nine assists. Taylor Hendricks also scored 15 points.<\/p>\n
Mara and Stirtz each scored 10 points. Mara added four assists, three rebounds and two blocks in his 22 minutes. <\/p>\n
Stirtz contributed four dimes, three steals and three boards in 24 minutes.<\/p>\n
Brooks Barnhizer and Payton Sandfort each scored 13 points to lead OKC.<\/p>\n
Memphis outscored OKC 33-22 in both the first and second quarters. The Grizz also outscored the Thunder 19-8 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Bucks 97, Warriors Blue 83<\/p>\n
Brandon Boston Jr. scored 17 points off the bench to lead the Milwaukee Bucks to a 97-83 win over Warriors Blue at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.<\/p>\n
Bogoljub Markovic, the No. 47 overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft, scored 16 points on 8-of-12 shooting alongside six rebounds and three assists.<\/p>\n
The Bucks shot 53 percent from the field and out-rebounded Warriors Blue 42-31. They also outscored Warriors Blue 34-13 in the third quarter.<\/p>\n
Ryan Nembhard led Warriors Blue with 15 points.<\/p>\n
Darryn Peterson scored 28 points on 11-of-21 shooting in his summer league debut to lead the Utah Jazz to a 103-102 win over the Atlanta Hawks.<\/p>\n
Peterson shot 11-of-21 (4-of-7 from three) alongside five rebounds and two blocks. He did commit eight turnovers, but Peterson had a great scoring output in just 27 minutes.<\/p>\n
Cody Williams scored 17 points, and Justin Harmon and Max Abmas added 15 each off the bench.<\/p>\n
Kingston Flemings scored 14 points off the bench. He shot just 4-of-16 but did well otherwise, dishing nine assists and amassing four steals.<\/p>\n
The Hawks outscored the Jazz by five with him on the floor.<\/p>\n
Five Hawks scored in double digits, led by Asa Newell and Gabe Madsen with 15 apiece.<\/p>\n
Nique Clifford hit a three-pointer with six seconds left to give the Sacramento Kings a 79-76 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
Darius Acuff Jr. led all scorers with 25 points (17 in the second half). It was an off-night shooting for the Arkansas guard, who made 9-of-29 field goals and 1-of-9 three-pointers. Still, he made some big shots and plays en route to victory.<\/p>\n
Emanuel Sharp added 13 points for the Kings. Dylan Cardwell posted eight points, eight rebounds, four blocks and two steals.<\/p>\n
Egor Demin, the No. 8 overall pick in the 2025 NBA draft, led Brooklyn with 23 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Summer League action continued on Saturday with the second day of the California Classic, which is taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-779773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779773","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=779773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}