My “All-Sickos” team, if you will, of non-roster players whom the die-hards will be talking about post-Vegas. Let’s take a look at some of the best deep cuts from summer league. Most of them were probably playing over their heads and will settle back into careers in Europe or the G League, but for a few, their Vegas stint may have served notice that the league needs to take them more seriously. I already talked about some of the top performers and some of the low points, but I wanted to highlight a special third category for these guys. This year, we got quite a treat, as an unusually large number of undrafted or unaffiliated players shined in Vegas. Seeing those players check into a game is one thing, but when they actually shine, like Devoe did? That’s just as much a part of the magic of summer league as watching the top draft picks. For this group, it’s not seeing the Victor Wembanyamas that provides the real entertainment it’s seeing the undrafted and borderline-forgotten guys, the third-best players on their mid-major college teams and the, “Hey, wasn’t that guy on a two-way in Detroit five years ago?” moments. Over four games, he averaged 18.8 points on 53.2 percent shooting, made 11 of his 17 3-pointers and finished with a 27.4 PER - one of the best marks of any guard at summer league.Īnd among the “True Sickos of Summer League,” there was much rejoicing. Nonetheless, he proceeded to steal some of Wembanyama’s thunder by scoring a game-high 29 points in Portland’s 85-80 win and kept it up the rest of summer league.

So low on the totem pole was he that he was a DNP-coach’s decision in the Blazers’ summer-league opener. In came Devoe, an undrafted 23-year-old southpaw from Georgia Tech, fresh off a season in which he averaged 6.7 points per game with a 9.8 PER for the Clippers’ G League team in Ontario.

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