Summer League roster unveiled by Cavaliers

First-round pick Collin Sexton will headline the Cavaliers’ summer-league roster, which was unveiled July 3. Nate Barnes breaks down the players hoping to make an impression.

Collin Sexton, the No. 8 pick of the 2018 NBA Draft, will headline the Cavaliers’ roster at the Vegas Summer League.

The Cavaliers made their roster for the games, held at MGM Resorts on July 6-17, official July 3. Current Cavaliers Cedi Osman, Ante Zizic and Okaro White will join Sexton in Las Vegas.

Cavaliers assistant James Posey, a Twinsburg graduate, will coach the Summer League team.

John Holland, a twoway player for the Cavaliers during the 2017-18 season, is also on the roster. Canton Charge guard Scoochie Smith, who played in eight games for the Cavaliers’ G-League team last year, was added to the Summer League team.

The Cavaliers also added Orlando Magic wing Jamel Artis for the Summer League slate. Artis, an AllACC performer at Pittsburgh and two-way player for the Magic in 2017-18, averaged 5.1 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 1.2 assists in 15 games with Orlando. Artis ranked among the GLeague’s scoring leaders with 19.5 points per game in 46 games with the Lakeland Magic.

Idaho wing Brayon Blake, TCU forward Vladimir Brodziansky, California center Marcus Lee, Purdue guard Dakota Mathias, Kansas forward Billy Preston and Midwestern State guard Jordan Stevens round out the Cavaliers’ Summer League group.

Blake averaged 17 points per game and recorded 12 double-doubles as an AllBig Sky Conference first team selection. Brodziansky, a native of Slovakia, is a stretch four who averaged 15 points per game and shot 58 percent from the field last year.

Lee was a McDonald’s All-American as a Kentucky commit in the Class of 2013. After three years with the Wildcats, Lee transferred to the Golden Bears in 2016 for his final college season. Lee sat out the 2016-17 season and averaged 11.4 points and 7.2 rebounds per game this year.

Mathias, a native of Lima, was Ohio’s Division II Player of the Year as a senior at Elida High School in 2014. Mathias played four years at Purdue and averaged 12 points per game as a senior while shooting 46.6 percent from 3-point range.

Preston was an AllAmerican at Oak Hill Academy before he signed with Kansas. Preston left the school before he played a game for the Jayhawks. Amid an NCAA investigation into his involvement in a car accident on Kansas’ campus, which resulted in no injuries, Preston chose to leave the program in November 2017. He signed with Igokea Laktasi of the Adriatic League and Bosnia League, where Preston played three games before he left the team due to a sore shoulder.

Stevens finished his college career in 2016 when he started 28 games for Midwestern State and averaged 16.1 points per game.