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How did Syracuse players do in NBA Summer League?
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Jul 27, 2024
We dissect how Syracuse Orange players performed in NBA Summer League action.
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What's up Orange Fizz Nation? Alex Burstein here. It's one of the quietest
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parts of the year for sports between all-star breaks and Olympic breaks. Not
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a lot going on. One thing that has been heating up recently is the NBA Summer
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League and plenty of former Syracuse men's basketball players competing for either G League or NBA roster spots for this upcoming season. We'll look today at
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who's been doing really good and who needs to pick it up a little bit in the last few games of the NBA Summer League. One guy who's looked really good and he
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just finished his time up at Syracuse is Judah Mintz. The guard just finished up
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his time at Syracuse this past spring, tested the NBA draft while theirs went
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undrafted, but was able to sign a Summer League contract with the Philadelphia
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76ers and he has made the most of his time averaging 10 points per game across
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three games so far, had a 16-point performance against the Trail Blazers. So
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Judah Mintz, we've seen him look really good for the Orange. Now he's trying to take that skill set into the next level and these type performances are what
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gets you to the next level in the NBA. A couple of guys who need to pick it up a
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little bit the last few games of the Summer League. We have someone like Cole Swither who's been back and forth between the NBA and the G League, had a
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Miami Heat contract but got that drop so he's looking for a contract for this
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upcoming season. He's averaging nine points per game, had one big performance
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21 points earlier this summer, but he might need one more big performance to
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really convince another team to take a chance or have the Heat pick up another
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contract for him. Swither fighting for more NBA minutes and then you have
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someone like Buddy Boeheim who's been a star at the G League level for the
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Pistons, struggled when he's been called up to the NBA squad and then this summer
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he got moved to the Oklahoma City Thunder on an Exhibit 10 contract. He's
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been underwhelming this summer, 6.7 points per game. He's a sharpshooter, so you'd like to see that number a little bit higher for Boeheim. He'll try
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to clean that up in the last couple games of the summer. A couple of players
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who started with Syracuse and then moved on. Jesse Edwards has looked really
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strong. He moved from Syracuse to West Virginia and then Quincy Guerrier and Joe
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Gerrard have both been playing for the Toronto Raptors. Not many minutes for
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them. We'll see who can make the jump to the big leagues for Syracuse
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