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Category: NBA

Love posts impressive double-double with 12 rebounds in Blazers win

Caleb Love showed off dazzling moves and a career-best rebounding effort to produce a dynamic double-double in his most impressive game of the NBA Summer League on Tuesday night.

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Ingram has huge game with double-double, 6 assists as Spurs win thriller

Harrison Ingram had his best game of the NBA Summer League with a double-double to lead the unbeaten San Antonio Spurs to a thrilling overtime victory Monday night.

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Black has best game of Summer League; Nance nearly has double-double

Leaky Black had his best game of the NBA Summer League on Sunday, when Pete Nance flirted with a double-double and Cormac Ryan started and scored in double figures.

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Bacot wins battle with Love behind double-double, four blocks as both play well

Both played well in their first meeting since being teammates at Carolina, but Armando Bacot’s double-double led his Memphis Grizzlies to a 96–86 NBA Summer League victory Saturday night over Caleb Love’s Portland Trail Blazers.

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Cole Anthony reportedly headed to Milwaukee

Cole Anthony’s time in Memphis will come to a quick end without ever playing for the Grizzlies, as he reportedly is headed to the Milwaukee Bucks.

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Love impressive in Summer League debut; Bacot has good all-around game

Caleb Love put on a show in his NBA Summer League debut, and Armando Bacot had his best performance in three games during the second day of action in Las Vegas ahead of playing each other on Saturday night.

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Ryan, Nance have big nights in Bucks win; Ingram solid; tough game for Davis

Cormac Ryan and Pete Nance made strong impressions in their 2025 NBA Summer League debuts as the Milwaukee Bucks won their opener in Las Vegas 90–89 on Thursday night.

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11 Tar Heels playing in Summer League games in Las Vegas — when and how to watch

After four former Tar Heels got mixed results during preliminary Summer League games in either San Francisco or Salt Lake City, they’ll head to Las Vegas beginning Thursday, along with seven others UNC alums, for the main part of the NBA Summer League.

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Knee issue will sideline Powell out of NBA Summer League

Drake Powell’s pro basketball debut will have to wait until this fall. The former Carolina wing reportedly won’t play for the Brooklyn Nets’ Summer League team because of left knee tendinopathy, according to the New York Post.

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Powell says he never sulked or complained about his low usage rate at Carolina

Drake Powell suggested Tuesday that he was frustrated when the usage rate that he was accustomed to in high school and AAU games dropped significantly during his only season at North Carolina.

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Nets deal Cam Johnson to Nuggets

After playing the last 2½ seasons with the Brooklyn Nets, Cameron Johnson has been traded to the Denver Nuggets in exchange for Michael Porter Jr. and an unprotected 2032 first-round pick.

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Sharpe reportedly will sign two-year, $12-million deal with Nets

Former North Carolina center Day’Ron Sharpe will sign a two-year, $12-million deal to return to the Brooklyn Nets, according to a Monday afternoon report from ESPN’s Shams Charania. This comes one day after the news that Brooklyn didn’t tender qualifying offers to Sharpe and Ziaire Williams, making both unrestricted free agents.

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RJ Davis signs with Lakers; Love strikes deal with Blazers

Neither RJ Davis nor Caleb Love heard their names called during the NBA draft after five-year college careers, but both former UNC guards will get a chance to prove they deserve a spot on an NBA roster.

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Jawad Williams returns home, joins Cleveland Cavaliers coaching staff

After a playing career that included many stops around the world, Jawad Williams — who won a national championship at Carolina in 2005 — is coming home for his second assistant coaching job in the NBA.

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Most mock drafts project Powell to be a first-round pick

The NBA draft is less than two weeks away, and most mock drafts are projecting North Carolina’s Drake Powell to be a first-round pick, with predictions going as high as No. 17.

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R.L. Bynum spent 27 years in the newspaper industry in sports and news. He has covered UNC athletics since 2015 — including several ACC and NCAA tournaments, the 2017 and 2022 Final Fours, the 2024 Men’s College World Series, the Orange Bowl and other bowls — for Tar Heel Tribune and various other websites, including Raleigh & Company, Triangle Sports Network, 919 Blog and Carolina Blue. Read his insights about running (he’s run 53 marathons) on the Running Commentary blog. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @RL_Bynum, on Bluesky at @rl-bynum.bsky.social and on Threads @r.l.bynum (follow Tar Heel Tribune on X @Tar_HeelTribune). Email him at rlb262m@gmail.com.

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