{"id":169080,"date":"2025-07-14T01:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/169080\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T01:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T01:42:11","slug":"koby-brea-is-already-the-talk-of-nba-summer-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/169080\/","title":{"rendered":"Koby Brea is already the talk of NBA Summer League"},"content":{"rendered":"

Phoenix Suns fans were already drooling over Koby Brea<\/a> after his first unofficial game as a pro, dropping 19 points on 7-10 shooting and 4-5 from three in his 2025 NBA Summer League debut. He lived up to the hype as one of the deadliest snipers in the draft class, but again, it was just one game. Was it sustainable?<\/p>\n

That answer is yes, Brea following up his red-hot performance with another standout effort in game two, finishing with 15 points, six rebounds, two assists and a steal in 29 minutes. <\/p>\n

He started with eight points in the first half, highlighted by two end-of-shot-clock buckets that were silky smooth.<\/p>\n

Then came the three-point daggers in the second half, the biggest being a disgusting between-the-legs, stepback heave from the corner with Jacob Toppin in his face \u2014 a pro bucket if there has ever been one.<\/p>\n

Sometimes you\u2019re hot, sometimes you\u2019re En Fuego.<\/p>\n

It was a performance that left Brea feeling pretty confident about getting shots off against NBA length and physicality \u2014 a credit to his year playing in the SEC at Kentucky, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I dealt with physicality last year,\u201d Brea said of his time in Lexington. <\/a>\u201cGuys just wanted to body me up and kinda throw me around. But I\u2019m not taking that. I might look skinny, but I\u2019m pretty strong. I\u2019m really comfortable with the physicality.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everyone knows he can knock down catch-and-shoot threes, but as he showed on Sunday, he\u2019s got a deep mid-range bag, too.<\/p>\n

His goal is to become a three-level scorer at the next level.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m reading the closeouts, attacking the closeouts. I know I have a mid-range game, so I can get to that any time,\u201d he said.<\/a> \u201cNext step is getting to the rim, little things I keep learning from and improving upon. I\u2019m just grateful I was able to have that experience today.\u201d<\/p>\n

Through two Summer League games, he\u2019s currently averaging 17.0 points per contest on 54\/60\/100 splits. Is that good? It sounds good.<\/p>\n

As you can probably imagine, Brea is all anyone wants to talk about right now \u2014 especially Suns fans and media members.<\/p>\n

\u201cKoby Brea is already special on the move. Can\u2019t wait to see how that evolves throughout his career\u201d \u2013 Forbes analyst Shane Young.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s taken two Summer League games for Koby Brea to cement himself in that \u2018genuinely surprised when he misses an open 3\u2019 category\u201d \u2013 Suns writer Gerald Bourguet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKoby Brea\u2019s jumper is smoother than the top-shelf vodka here in Vegas\u201d \u2013 Espo of PHNX Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cKoby Brea is an nba player for sure. His jumper is so ****** smooth. \u2026 Devin Booker twin\u201d<\/a> \u2014 NBA content creator Brandon Awadis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe may end up being the best second-round pick from this year\u2019s draft. Smooth shot from anywhere on the court and a high understanding for how to get his open looks. He should be a great addition to Phoenix\u2019s bench\u201d \u2014 Brett Siegel of Clutch Points.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cSaying Koby Brea reminds you of Devin Booker isn\u2019t an odd thing to say. Repeatedly he has said Devin Booker is his favorite player and he sees a lot of Booker in him. It would honestly be odd if he looked like anyone else on the court. \u2026 Every time (he) shoots the ball I just assume he\u2019s hitting nothing but net, sheesh.\u201d \u2013 Phoenix-based podcaster and analyst Benjamin Garcia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NBA teams are going to regret passing on Koby Brea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Phoenix Suns fans were already drooling over Koby Brea after his first unofficial game as a pro, dropping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,3138],"class_list":{"0":"post-169080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-koby-brea-20-msgr-scanlan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114849051170671211","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}