{"id":771353,"date":"2026-07-19T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771353\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:10:52","slug":"recap-wizards-beat-hawks-to-finish-2026-summer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/771353\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Wizards beat Hawks to finish 2026 summer league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\">With both teams sitting their top prospects, the Wizards skeleton summer league squad beat the Hawks skeleton summer league squad, 91-83. Both teams had just eight players available. Both teams hope at least a few of those eight will help populate their G League teams this season. Both teams finish their Las Vegas adventure with identical 3-2 records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There seems to be a scoring differential tie-breaker that determines who finishes 12th (apparently Atlanta) and who finishes 13th (apparently Washington). I don\u2019t see how it matters, but it seems <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/2026-summer-league-vegas-standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA.com<\/a> has the official standings. Gotta be honest, I\u2019d love to learn that Seth Trimble or Reece Beekman (or anyone really) negotiated a bonus based on the team finishing with a winning record or something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">This game definitely involved the playing of basketball. The Hawks fired blanks (5-31 from three) while the Wizards connected from deep (10-26), and that was basically the difference. Washington ran out to a nine-point by the end of the first quarter and hung on to win by eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">A few of the Wizards played pretty well. Reece Beekman had 14 assists to just four turnovers. Felix Okpara looks like maybe he\u2019ll be a competent backup big man at some point in the future, though he did commit seven fouls and four turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Seth Trimble defended and rebounded well but did none of the guard stuff (shooting, playmaking) teams typically expect from their guards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">John Camden hit 4-8 from three-point range en route to tying Atlanta\u2019s Devon Diggs for a game-high 22 points. Chris Livingston was decent \u2014 20 points, 5 rebounds \u2014 and seems to have sufficient size and physical abilities to someday (maybe) win a spot in an NBA rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">I don\u2019t think anyone did enough to make me think the roster and rotation calculus for the upcoming season changes, but there was some maybe someday work on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">For the Wizards, summer league was successful. The youngsters they\u2019re counting on for next season (AJ Dybantsa, Tre Johnson, and Will Riley) all played reasonably well and emerged healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Next up for the Wizards: Offseason workouts, pickup games, maybe some vacations, and then training camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With both teams sitting their top prospects, the Wizards skeleton summer league squad beat the Hawks skeleton summer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":771354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,1755,99,329247],"class_list":["post-771353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-sports","tag-washington-wizards-recaps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771353","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=771353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/771353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/771354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=771353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=771353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=771353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}