{"id":182224,"date":"2025-07-19T22:42:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182224\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:42:17","slug":"jaden-akins-goes-out-firing-posts-best-scoring-night-in-nba-summer-league-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/182224\/","title":{"rendered":"Jaden Akins goes out firing, posts best scoring night in NBA Summer League finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Spartans guard Jaden Akins went out on top in his NBA Summer League finale on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Akins wrapped up his stay at the NBA Summer League with his best scoring performance yet on Friday. Akins reached double-digits in scoring for the first time in the five games played, finishing with 11 points, four rebounds and three steals in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/dal-vs-orl-1522500061\/box-score\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">loss against the Mavericks<\/a>. Akins made it clear he was going to go out firing, putting up a team-high 14 shots in the summer league finale.<\/p>\n<p>Akins appeared in four of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/orlando-magic\/19\/\" data-autotag=\"0beff9dc-ada3-4e62-b859-030ef8c2c69f\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Orlando Magic<\/a>&#8216;s five NBA Summer League games. He finished his stay averaging just under six points per game in his four appearances.<\/p>\n<p>We will now have to wait and see where Akins lands for the upcoming season. There is a chance he&#8217;ll get signed to a NBA G League team, but at a minimum he&#8217;ll get a shot to play outside of the U.S. should he not land on a G League squad.<\/p>\n<p>Contact\/Follow us @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thespartanswire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The SpartansWire<\/a> on X (formerly Twitter) and like our page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SpartansWire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> to follow ongoing coverage of Michigan State news, notes and opinion. You can also follow Robert Bondy on X @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RobertBondy5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">RobertBondy5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Spartans guard Jaden Akins went out on top in his NBA Summer League finale on Friday. Akins&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3779],"tags":[12038,2126,7,657,12040,319,325,2127,2125,12039,2501,48,1739,3490,3491,6,3494,67,47,76,3883,61,134,132,3489,66,83,17,55,2128,3166],"class_list":{"0":"post-182224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando-magic","8":"tag-12038","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-big","12":"tag-big-10-hub","13":"tag-college","14":"tag-college-sports","15":"tag-enabled","16":"tag-highlights","17":"tag-hub","18":"tag-league","19":"tag-magic","20":"tag-michigan","21":"tag-michigan-state-basketball","22":"tag-michigan-state-spartans","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-nba-summer-league","25":"tag-news","26":"tag-orlando","27":"tag-orlando-magic","28":"tag-orlandomagic","29":"tag-overall","30":"tag-overall-positive","31":"tag-positive","32":"tag-spartans","33":"tag-sports","34":"tag-sports-news","35":"tag-state","36":"tag-story","37":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","38":"tag-summer"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114882318128574060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182224","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=182224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}