{"id":42564,"date":"2025-07-06T05:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T05:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42564\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T05:12:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T05:12:11","slug":"12-utah-college-ties-playing-in-nba-summer-league-deseret-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/42564\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Utah college ties playing in NBA Summer League \u2013 Deseret News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Four months ago, Lawson Lovering played his final game at the Huntsman Center in a Utah Runnin\u2019 Utes uniform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Saturday, Lovering returned to the Runnin\u2019 Utes\u2019 floor, this time in a Memphis Grizzlies uniform. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lovering suited up for the Grizzlies\u2019 summer league team in their 92-80 win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on the opening day of summer league action.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1751778731_748_UHKGP77IT5E3JLPDLCGEIU5ZBI.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Special Collector&#8217;s Issue: &#8220;1984: The Year BYU was Second to None&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Get an inclusive look inside BYU Football&#8217;s 1984 National Championship season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Huntsman Center is playing host to the Salt Lake City Summer League, and that allowed Lovering to play at the arena he\u2019s called home the past two seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lovering ended up playing nearly 11 minutes Saturday and finished with two points (on his only shot attempt), three rebounds, three blocks and a steal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Former Utah star Branden Carlson, who won an NBA championship with the Thunder in his rookie pro season, is on Oklahoma City\u2019s Summer League team but he did not play in Saturday\u2019s matchup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In total, there are 12 Utah college ties playing in this year\u2019s summer league action, <a href=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/lists\/2025-nba-summer-league-rosters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/hoopshype.com\/lists\/2025-nba-summer-league-rosters\/\">according to Hoops Hype<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Utah college ties playing in the 2025 NBA Summer League<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><b>Player, Position, Utah tie(s) \u2014 NBA Summer League team<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deivon Smith, G, Utah \u2014 Atlanta Hawks (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Max Shulga, G, Utah State \u2014 Boston Celtics (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Egor D\u00ebmin, G, BYU \u2014 Brooklyn Nets (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Jaxson Robinson, G, BYU \u2014 Cleveland Cavaliers (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Gabe Madsen, G, Utah \u2014 Golden State Warriors (California Classic, Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Great Osobor, F, Utah State \u2014\u00a0Houston Rockets (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Steven Ashworth, G, Utah State and Lone Peak High \u2014 Indiana Pacers (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Lawson Lovering, C, Utah \u2014 Memphis Grizzlies (Salt Lake City Summer League, Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Pelle Larsson, F, Utah \u2014 Miami Heat (California Classic, Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Blaise Threatt, G, Weber State \u2014 Milwaukee Bucks (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Branden Carlson, C, Utah and Bingham High \u2014 Oklahoma City Thunder (Salt Lake City Summer League, Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<li>Lazar Stefanovic, G, Utah \u2014 Orlando Magic (Vegas Summer League)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four months ago, Lawson Lovering played his final game at the Huntsman Center in a Utah Runnin\u2019 Utes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42565,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,1317,1337,1338,1680,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-42564","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-basketball","11":"tag-ncaabasketball","12":"tag-news-feed-local","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42564\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}