2025 Summer United Summary - Which players stand out in Las Vegas?

After "Son of America" Flag, the newcomer who attracted the most fans' attention this summer league is Yang Hansen, who belongs to the 16th pick in the first round of the Portland Trail Blazers. Yang Hansen, who is 2.16 meters tall, has particularly impressive passing ability on the outside. He has sent 15 assists in four games in the summer league, including many exciting highlights.

In addition, his ability to protect the basket is better than expected, with 2.3 blocks per game and 4 of 11 shots from outside the three-point line, showing a certain shooting potential. What needs to be improved is rebounding, he averaged only 5.3 rebounds per game.

In addition to Yang Hansen, a Chinese fan favorite, the best rookie in the summer league should be awarded to Kings Nick Clifford, Mavericks Cooper Flag, and Hornets Liam McNeley.

Nick Clifford was the Thunder's No. 24 pick in the first round and was then traded to the Kings. This year's 23-year-old rookie Clifford is undoubtedly the most mature one in the entire rookie group. His five years of college experience have allowed him to play extremely high on-the-fighting power. He averaged 18.5 points, 6.5 rebounds and 5 assists in the Las Vegas Summer League. Considering that Clifford's explosion in the late-college period is closely related to his shooting ability, now he makes 9 of 17 shots from outside the NBA three-point line (53% shooting percentage), it is undoubtedly a positive signal.

Frager became the second youngest pick in NBA history at the age of 18 and 186 days (second only to James). Before the draft, he was known as "the hope of white Americans. In college, he averaged 19.2 points, 7.5 rebounds, 4.2 assists, 1.4 breaks and 1.4 caps per game, and the team ranked first in five statistics. The Mavericks specially gave Flag a lot of ball-holding opportunities to exercise his ability to control the ball. As a ball-holding striker, Flag's current usage rate ranks third among all players. His dribbling stability still needs to be improved to play a similar role in the official NBA game, but when he faced the Spurs, he had already shown a high potential to maintain efficiency in the ball-holding round. In that game, Flag played 31 minutes, made 10 of 21 shots, 3 of 9 three-pointers, and 8 of 13 free throws, scoring 31 points, 4 rebounds, 1 assist and 1 hat.

Hornets selected Con Knuppel with the No. 4 draw this season, Liam McNeley with the No. 29 draw, Duke forward Sheen James with the No. 33 draw, and center Ryan Calke Brenner with the No. 34 draw. Now, McNeley, who ranked 29th in the first round, has even surpassed his teammate Knuppel with the No. 4 draw, and in the game against the Jazz, McNeley Neilly contributed 22 points, 12 rebounds and 6 assists, and made 7 of 16 shots. In the game, he showed his ability to run without the ball and three-point shooting. McNeilly made a fast three-point shooting speed and a stable shooting percentage, and was compared by the Hornets media to Klay Thompson's posture.

Overall, there are basically no bad things in the first round of the NBA this year, so it depends on the performance of the NBA rookies!