{"id":757153,"date":"2026-07-11T18:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757153\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T18:25:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T18:25:28","slug":"warriors-chance-mcmillian-onetime-gsw-fan-staring-in-summer-league-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/757153\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors’ Chance McMillian, onetime GSW fan, staring in summer league"},"content":{"rendered":"

LAS VEGAS \u2013 With the ball in his hands, Chance McMillian<\/a> is quick. But unburdened by the need to dribble, the Warriors\u2019 summer league guard<\/a> born and raised in Vallejo<\/a> is a blur.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old is a perpetual motion machine, zipping around the court in search of even the slightest sliver of open space. That is all he needs to get off a shot that he honed through thousands of hours making baskets growing up in the East Bay.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But this summer, a year removed from ankle surgery that cost him all of summer league as a rookie, McMillian comes to Vegas with an opportunity to show he deserves a role on the Warriors, the team he grew up rooting for. McMillian even went to a Steph Curry camp as a youngster back when Curry was just a rookie in 2009.<\/p>\n

The 6-foot-3 guard is now bent on proving that he can be a point guard a la his other idol, Baron Davis. It is a role he played at both St. Patrick-St. Vincent and later Bethel as a 3-time Tri-County Athletic League MVP as a prep star, but one he put away to shine as an off-ball threat at the collegiate level.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be your primary ballhandler and just continuing to build on my quick decision-making, and obviously being able to knock down the open shot would help too,\u201d McMillian said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"GoldenGolden State Warriors’ Chance McMillian (55) takes a shot against Los Angeles Lakers’ Anton Watson (41) and Los Angeles Lakers’ Peter Suder (35) in the fourth quarter during a Summer League game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, July 3, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n

So far, he\u2019s off to a great start.\u00a0<\/p>\n

McMillian scored in double figures in all three California Classic games before scoring four points in the Warriors\u2019 101-90 victory over the Mavericks<\/a> in the Las Vegas opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along the way, McMillian has played with the kind of patience and poise as a point guard. That is not by accident.<\/p>\n

After recovering from his ankle injury, McMillian spent the entire season in Santa Cruz, where he averaged 5.1 assists per game as G League staff transformed him into a floor general.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Summer league coach Khalid Robinson has seen those hours in the gym pay off during the July exhibitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe staff did a great job with teaching him how we want to play, with spacing, making good decisions, and he had a full season of doing that,\u201d Robinson said. \u201cI think he\u2019s done a very good job of carrying over the things from Santa Cruz and the postseason into the summer.\u201d<\/p>\n

With Pat Spencer off to Phoenix and several roster spots still open, there is an opportunity for McMillian to earn a two-way contract with the Warriors, or remain in Santa Cruz in case Golden State needs to call a player up.<\/p>\n

\"GoldenGolden State Warriors\u2019 Chance McMillian (55) drives against San Antonio Spurs\u2019 Tyon Grant-Foster (34) in the fourth quarter of their California Classic Summer League game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Sunday, July 5, 2026. (Jose Carlos Fajardo\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the most common plays in the Warriors\u2019 playbook is running guards like McMillian off split cuts, asking a frontcourt player to make the pass to the guard zipping into position.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In many instances, the passer has been second-year center Lachlan Olbrich. Having already played 37 NBA games as a rookie, the Australian big man was confident in his assessment of Chance\u2019s skillset.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can score the ball at all three levels, and he\u2019s an agile, quick guy,\u201d Olbrich told the Bay Area News Group.<\/p>\n

McMillian is adamant that his future is as a point guard at the next level, referring to his improved handle as his tricks that he has stashed away but are ready to be used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But at the same time, the Vallejo native also admitted that at the end of the day, his smooth jumper is his key to staying in the NBA.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest asset is shooting, so I will definitely play to my strengths,\u201d McMillian said.<\/p>\n

\"GoldenGolden State Warriors’ Chance McMillian (55) takes a shot against Los Angeles Lakers’ Peter Suder (35) in the first quarter during a Summer League game at Chase Center in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, July 3, 2026. (Shae Hammond\/Bay Area News Group)\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LAS VEGAS \u2013 With the ball in his hands, Chance McMillian is quick. But unburdened by the need…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[402,3805,2356,2243,10831,2558,355,10836,5284,10838,99,3781,126656],"class_list":["post-757153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-golden-state-warriors","tag-inside-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-nba","tag-peninsula","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-county","tag-sports","tag-steph-curry","tag-warriors-hq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757153","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=757153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}