{"id":16341,"date":"2025-07-22T21:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16341\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:01:09","slug":"kyle-filipowski-becomes-first-utah-jazz-player-to-earn-nba-summer-league-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/16341\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Filipowski becomes first Utah Jazz player to earn NBA Summer League MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Kyle Filipowski became the first Utah Jazz 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 Duke, 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 San Antonio on July 14th when he finished with 35 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s 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>\u201cObviously it\u2019s different in summer league versus (the regular season),\u201d Filipowski said, following the third and final summer league game for the Jazz. \u201cI\u2019m just trying to be myself out there right now. However that translates to the season, that\u2019s how it\u2019s going to be. I\u2019m going to make the most of it in that way.\u201d<\/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\u2019s end, Filipowski was one of only two NBA rookies to total more than 650 points, 400 rebounds and 100 assists.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/nba\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY (AP) \u2014 Kyle Filipowski became the first Utah Jazz player to earn most valuable player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-16341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}