{"id":26060,"date":"2025-07-21T12:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26060\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T12:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:11:10","slug":"nba-summer-league-standout-players-from-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/26060\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Summer League: Standout players from Day 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1815137\" class=\"wp-image-1815137 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/david-jones-garcia-driving-1568x882.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1568\" height=\"882\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1815137\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Jones Garcia turns in one last scoring clinic with 23 points in 23 minutes against Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/link.nba.com\/NBAapp_\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download the NBA App<\/a><br \/>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Summer League: Complete Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA 2K26 Summer League<\/a> championship game was set as Sacramento and Charlotte both cruised in the semifinals, leaving one final day of competition in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the players who starred in Saturday\u2019s penultimate slate:<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Jones, Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n<p>Jones picked a great time to have by far his best game of the summer, tripling his previous scoring average in Las Vegas with 36 points on ridiculous 13-for-17 shooting as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/sac-vs-tor-1522500068\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unbeaten Kings advanced<\/a> to Sunday\u2019s championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Not even first-round prospects Devin Carter and Nique Clifford could claim the spotlight from Jones, who scored nine points in the final 2:55 to almost single-handedly stave off a wild Toronto rally that cut Sacramento\u2019s game-high lead of 22 down to just one.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Isaac Jones ERUPTED for 36 points on 13-17 shooting to help the Kings advance to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA2KSummerLeague?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#NBA2KSummerLeague<\/a> championship game \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RAeUsyHowm\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RAeUsyHowm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1946696028872233166?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 19, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dillon Jones &amp; Jamir Watkins, Washington Wizards<\/p>\n<p>The two fringe prospects came up with quality all-around performances in their last chance of the summer to impress. Jones led all players with 25 points and 11 rebounds along with three assists, two steals and a block. Watkins was almost as productive, piling up 23 points eight rebounds, two assists and five steals.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with a previous eight-steal game, Watkins leaves Las Vegas having averaged 3.8 thefts in his five appearances. Jones, meanwhile, was able to take full advantage of his 36 minutes after having seen only sporadic playing time coming into Saturday\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n<p>Jaylen Sims, Charlotte Hornets<\/p>\n<p>Sims did little else but score <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/cha-vs-okc-1522500070\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Oklahoma City<\/a>. But if you\u2019re as productive and efficient as he was, such single-minded focus is understandable. Still seeking a permanent home, the free agent guard needed just 25 minutes and 14 shots to pile up his game-high 25 points.<\/p>\n<p>The outburst, which included four 3-pointers, helped dominate the Thunder to such an extent the benches were cleared midway through the third quarter. While that might have prevented Sims from pouring in even more points, it also gave him another opportunity to grab somebody\u2019s eye in Sunday\u2019s title game.<\/p>\n<p>David Jones Garcia, San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n<p>Has Jones Garcia done enough to earn a contract? If not, he can at least take satisfaction from making about as strong a case for himself as he possibly could in Las Vegas, finishing as one of the Summer League\u2019s top scorers at 21.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Dominican sharpshooter capped off his summer with 23 points and four 3-pointers as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/det-vs-sas-1522500072\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Antonio handled Detroit<\/a>. Combined with his strong showing last season with Mexico City in the G League, he at least seems to have attracted overseas interest with several European powers reportedly taking note.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Jones Garcia turns in one last scoring clinic with 23 points in 23 minutes against Detroit. \u2022\u00a0Download&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99,7068],"class_list":["post-26060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports","tag-summer-league-standouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}