{"id":772615,"date":"2026-06-28T07:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/772615\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T07:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T07:57:28","slug":"fulks-and-kugel-sign-with-los-angeles-clippers-ucf-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/772615\/","title":{"rendered":"Fulks and Kugel Sign with Los Angeles Clippers &#8211; UCF Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\">ORLANDO \u2013 Guards <a href=\"https:\/\/ucfknights.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/riley-kugel\" title=\"Riley Kugel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Riley Kugel<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ucfknights.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/player\/themus-fulks\" title=\"Themus Fulks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Themus Fulks<\/a> have signed contracts with the Los Angeles Clippers to compete in the 2026 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Kugel, a Dr. Phillips High School product, led UCF in scoring with 14.4 points per game while starting 31 games during the 2025-26 season. He also averaged 3.1 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game while shooting 41% from the field and 38% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Fulks, one of 13 newcomers on the Knights&#8217; roster this past season, ranked second in the Big 12 with 6.6 assists per game while averaging 14.0 points. The North Carolina native appeared in all 33 games, shooting 46% from the field and 39% from beyond the arc. He was tabbed Big 12 Third Team along with earning Big 12 starting five honors in weeks 11, 13, and 16.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas begins July 9 and runs through July 19, with all 30 NBA teams participating.<\/p>\n<p>UCF finished the 2025-26 season with a 21-12 overall record, including a program-best 9-9 mark in Big 12 play. The Knights earned five Quad 1 victories, defeating Texas A&amp;M, No. 17 Kansas, No. 11 Texas Tech, No. 19 BYU and Cincinnati.<\/p>\n<p>The victory over Cincinnati in the second round of the Big 12 Championship on March 11 helped secure UCF&#8217;s at-large berth in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Knights earned a No. 10 seed and faced No. 7 seed UCLA in the first round at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia. UCF&#8217;s appearance marked the program&#8217;s first NCAA Tournament berth since the 2018-19 season. The Knights&#8217; season came to an end with a 75-71 loss to the Bruins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORLANDO \u2013 Guards Riley Kugel and Themus Fulks have signed contracts with the Los Angeles Clippers to compete&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":772616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6],"class_list":["post-772615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116826671920020799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772615","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=772615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/772616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}