SALT LAKE CITY — Kyle Filipowski grew to become the primary Utah Jazz participant to earn most useful participant honours within the NBA Summer time League on Tuesday.
Filipowski, a six-foot-11 ahead out of Duke, averaged a league-leading 29.3 factors per contest over three video games whereas including 7.7 rebounds and a pair of.3 assists. He shot 56.1 per cent from the sector and 39.1 per cent from three-point vary.
His greatest summer season league efficiency got here in opposition to San Antonio on July 14 when he completed with 35 factors and 11 rebounds.
He’s hoping to make use of his summer season league expertise as a springboard for the function he needs to play with the Jazz in his second NBA season.
“Clearly it’s totally different in summer season league versus (the common season),” Filipowski mentioned, following the third and closing summer season league recreation for the Jazz. “I’m simply attempting to be myself on the market proper now. Nonetheless that interprets to the season, that’s the way it’s going to be. I’m going to profit from it in that manner.”
Filipowski appeared in 72 video games in his rookie marketing campaign with Utah, making 27 begins. He averaged 9.6 factors, 6.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists in 21.2 minutes per recreation. By season’s finish, Filipowski was considered one of solely two NBA rookies to whole greater than 650 factors, 400 rebounds and 100 assists.
