{"id":165375,"date":"2025-07-12T10:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/165375\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T10:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T10:29:16","slug":"despite-injury-kobe-brown-showcases-his-potential-for-clippers-in-summer-league-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/165375\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite injury, Kobe Brown showcases his potential for Clippers in Summer League win"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Clippers<\/a>‘ NBA Summer League contest Friday against the Houston Rockets offered a chance for Kobe Brown to show he’s capable of being a rotational player for the Clippers this season.<\/p>\n

But misfortune struck in the third quarter when Brown got tangled with a Rockets defender who fell on his right ankle. Brown sat on the Clippers\u2019 bench for a few minutes before he limped to their locker room.<\/p>\n

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Brown didn’t return in the Clippers’ 95-92 win<\/a> at Cox Pavilion on Friday night after sustaining what the team described as a right ankle contusion.<\/p>\n

Brown is entering his third season with the Clippers and the team is eager for the 2023 30th overall draft pick to make an impact. He\u2019ll make $2.65 million this season and will have a qualifying offer for next season at $4.7 million.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s just got to continue to do what he did tonight,\u201d said Clippers assistant coach Jerry Castleberry, the team\u2019s Summer League coach. \u201cPlay great defense. Make the right reads. We\u2019ve been talking about it all training camp. Get in the paint, draw two, make the right reads and if they put a small on him, he showed his ability to be able to score against a mismatch tonight and doing it the right way \u2014 quickly, getting downhill, not dancing, just getting straight to the point.<\/p>\n

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Brown scored 10 points in the first quarter, going four for five from the field, making both of his three-point attempts. On one of those threes, he ran the length of the court and took a pass for a lob dunk.<\/p>\n

Brown finished with 14 points, four rebounds and four assists in 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnkle is good,\u201d Castleberry said. \u201cAnkle is fine. Just precautionary. He\u2019ll be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Clippers waived Jordan Miller<\/a> before summer league started, but they still had a roster spot so he was added to the team.<\/p>\n

He did not disappoint Friday, producing 23 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n

Miller has been given an opportunity to show the Clippers \u2014 and any other team \u2014 how the Summer League is useful for him.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWith this team it takes a lot of humility. Not thinking less of yourself but also thinking less of yourself,\u201d Miller said. \u201cJust finding a way to maximize whatever role it is. It\u2019s not just for me, but it\u2019s for all the guys. We got guys that can score. The only way we\u2019re going to get on the floor is defending and making open threes. That\u2019s just the reality of it. … But for the most part, just working game reps. Like, you\u2019re not going to get a lot of ball-screens. You\u2019re not going to get a lot of touches. So you just got to work on your off-ball shooting, movement shooting and being able to not mess up defensively.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was on defense where Clippers rookie Yanic Konan Niederhauser<\/a> was at his best.<\/p>\n

Niederhauser blocked four shots and had 10 rebounds. He used his seven-foot frame as a deterrent and displayed why the Clippers drafted him out of Penn State.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe did everything he was supposed to do,\u201d Castleberry said. \u201cHe was great with rim-protection, changing shots and I just thought he was good.\u201d<\/p>\n

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