The Brooklyn Nets did not win the NBA Summer League championship, but they did have a winner: Cam Thomas, the No. 27 overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, was named 2021 Summer League Co-MVP, sharing that honor with Sacramento’s Davion Mitchell.
In addition, the Knicks’ Obi Toppin was named to the seven-player All-Summer League First Team.
Thomas led the Summer League in scoring, dropping 27 points per game for Nets on 42.3 percent shooting (including 36 percent from beyond the arc), and added 2.0 assists and 1.8 rebounds per game.
The LSU product’s scoring average was the third-best all-time in Summer League play for true rookies, and comes off a collegiate season where he led all NCAA freshmen by dropping 23 per game for the Tigers.
Toppin averaged 21 points and 8.3 rebounds per game for the Knicks in the Summer League, shooting 44.5 percent from the field and tying for seventh in the league in scoring. He and Thomas were two of four New York players to be Top 10 in individual categories, joining Brooklyn’s Alize Johnson (fourth in rebounding with 10.2 per game) and the Knicks’ Immanuel Quickley, whose 7.8 assists per game were second in the circuit behind Boston’s Payton Pritchard.
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