Sunday’s results
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Ryan Kelly made two free throws with 22.3 seconds left to give the Hawks the victory. Josh Collins led the Hawks with 22 points on 9-of-11 shooting and collected 10 rebounds.
Two Pelicans players scored more than 20 points — Quinn Cook with 25 and Cheick Diallo with 23.
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Dennis Smith Jr. made 8 of 14 shots and scored 25 points to lead the Mavericks. He also had eight rebounds and four assists. Mike James led the Suns with 19 points, and No. 4 overall draft pick Josh Jackson had 15 points and nine rebounds.
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Former UNLV and Findlay Prep standout Rashad Vaughn scored 31 and totaled eight rebounds. Caris Levert led Brooklyn with 18 points.
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Perry Ellis led five players in double figures with 19 points on 7-of-11 shooting as the Timberwolves won easily. Teammate Matt Costello finished with 12 points and 15 rebounds. Malik Beasley scored 20 points for Denver, and Juan Hernangomez had 18.
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Jamil Wilson made 4 of 5 3-pointers and finished with 18 points to lead the Clippers. Tony Bradley had 16 points and nine rebounds for the Jazz.
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Jaylen Brown totaled 13 points and eight rebounds to lead the Celtics. Jayson Tatum, this year’s No. 3 overall pick, added 11 points and seven rebounds. Caleb Swanigan led Portland with 12 points, and Bishop Gorman High School graduate Zach Collins had five points and six rebounds.
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Jarell Martin and Wayne Selden each scored 21 points to lead the Grizzlies. Martin (10 rebounds) and Wade Baldwin IV (12 points, 10 rebounds) each had a doubledouble. De’aaron Fox, the No. 5 overall pick in this year’s draft, led the Kings with 17 points.
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Bryn Forbes scored 35 points, making all 17 free throw attempts, to top all scorers for the Spurs. Teammate Davis Bertans added 20 points. For Philadelphia, Aaron Harrison scored 14 points, and Furkan Korkmaz had 12. not only for his hometown Dallas Mavericks, but for every NBA team as well as international clubs during the NBA Summer League.
“I think everybody that hasn’t already signed is auditioning for everybody that’s watching,” Spieth said. “So I’m trying to show I can fit into a system and do what the coach wants me to do and play the way I should play.”
Spieth played four years at Brown, averaging 11.6 points, 5.8 rebounds and 2.9 assists. He caught on with the Mavericks after attending a pro camp in New York and getting their attention.
In Sunday’s 88-77 victory over the Phoenix Suns, Spieth played three minutes, scored two points and grabbed a rebound.
“There are a lot of scouts here, NBA and abroad, so hopefully just trying to raise a couple of eyebrows and see what comes of it,” Spieth said.
His older brother, Jordan, is coming off a PGA Tour victory in the Travelers Championship. He won the June 25 tournament by chipping in from the bunker on the first playoff hole.
Jordan also is a Masters and U.S. Open champion.
His advice for Steven?
“Just enjoy the process,” Spieth said. “You only get to go through this beginning stage of your professional career once.”
Vaughn lights up Nets
Former UNLV wing and current Milwaukee swingman Rashad Vaughn bumped into Bucks head coach Jason Kidd at the Cox Pavilion after their team’s 88-83 victory over the Brooklyn Nets.
Vaughn finished with just two assists, and Kidd, one of the best passers in NBA history, jokingly gave the 20-year-old a hard time about his passing, or lack thereof.
Instead, Vaughn picked apart Brooklyn’s defense and scored 31 points, a summer-league high thus far.
He showcased his whole offensive package and shot 13 of 18 from the field.
“I was just trying to be patient … take what they give me,” Vaughn said after the game. “I’m a lot more confident.”
Vaughn, now in his third year with
the Bucks, made three of his seven 3-point attempts and scored several times around the basket, often finishing through contact.
He struggled in his first two full professional seasons with the Bucks but appeared quite comfortable on Sunday and was noticeably better than rookies and summer league newbies with whom he shared the floor.
Vaughn also served as a secondary playmaker for the Bucks.
“I thought you did the right thing,” Kidd told Vaughn, “by passing the ball to the rim.”
Brown puts it down
Jayson Tatum is the Boston Celtics player with the most eyes on him, but teammate Jaylen Brown had the most eye-catching dunk of the summer league so far.
He drove the baseline and slammed it home over two Portland Trail Blazers, Caleb Swanigan and Josh Scott.
“Those type of plays I try to avoid in the summer league,” Brown said. “They tell me to try to avoid those because you don’t want to get hurt. I got in the air and I saw (Swanigan and Scott) try to go for the block, so I finished it.”
Brown said he hadn’t seen the video of the dunk, so he didn’t how good it was.
“Was it pretty bad?” he asked a reporter.
After being told the dunk was indeed bad, Brown said, “All right, so I’ll check it out. I trust you guys. If you say it’s bad, it’s pretty bad.”
Zimm gets in
Milwaukee Bucks 7-footer Stephen Zimmerman Jr., who played at UNLV and Bishop Gorman High School, made his Las Vegas summer league debut. He did not score in three minutes, going 0-for-2 from the free throw line. Zimmerman had one rebound.
He joined the Bucks last week after getting waived by the Orlando Magic.
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