{"id":787314,"date":"2026-07-15T14:51:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787314\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T14:51:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T14:51:15","slug":"karabans-slow-start-in-summer-league-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/787314\/","title":{"rendered":"Karaban&#8217;s slow start in Summer League continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4917149\/alex-karaban\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Karaban<\/a>\u2018s slow start to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/summer-league\/2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBA Summer League<\/a> continued on Tuesday, as the former UConn star struggles to find his shot in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Karaban scored four points in 24 minutes in the Kings\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba-summer-league\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401881860\/league\/nba-summer-las-vegas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">115-83 loss to the Nets<\/a>. He went 2-for-6 from the field and 0-for-3 from 3-point range. He did grab five rebounds, dish out two assists, and record a block, while also committing two turnovers.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a rough shooting start for Karaban, who was chosen with the No. 29 overall pick in the draft. The 6-8 forward put up three points on 1-for-3 shooting last time out, and went scoreless on 0-for-6 shooting in his Summer League debut. In three games now, Karaban is averaging 2.3 points in 23.6 minutes per game. He\u2019s shot just 20 percent from the floor and 11 percent from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a very small sample size, but certainly isn\u2019t the start Karaban or the Kings would have envisioned. The team has one more game\u2013 against the Celtics on Wednesday, before starting in the Vegas consolation bracket against the Hornets on Friday at 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Newton rolls in Rockets win<\/p>\n<p>While Karaban has struggled this summer, his former teammate on back-to-back national title teams has been thriving. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/player\/_\/id\/4592965\/tristen-newton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tristen Newton<\/a> scored 17 points in 20 minutes in a 90-64 win over the 76ers on Tuesday. He shot 5 of 11 from the field, and 1-for-3 from 3-point range, grabbed five rebounds and dished out three assists. Newton is averaging 16 points per game this summer, to go along with 4.3 rebounds. He hasn\u2019t shot the ball extremely well\u2013hitting on 36.4 percent of shots and 28.6 from 3, but has shown he can fill it up when given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<\/p>\n<p>Three former Huskies could be in action on Wednesday, with Liam McNeeley\u2019s Hornets, Tarris Reed Jr.\u2019s Spurs and Karaban\u2019s Kings all taking the court on Prime Video. Newton could be back in action with the Rockets on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m. Milwaukee vs. Charlotte (Liam McNeeley) Prime Video<br \/>8 p.m. Boston vs. Sacramento (Alex Karaban) Prime Video<br \/>9:30 p.m. Utah vs. San Antonio (Tarris Reed Jr.) Prime Video<\/p>\n<p>Thursday<\/p>\n<p>4:30 p.m. Brooklyn vs. Houston (Tristen Netwon) ESPNU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Karaban\u2018s slow start to NBA Summer League continued on Tuesday, as the former UConn star struggles to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3780],"tags":[2377,7,2340,925,2680,194,2341,2679,68003,6,3494,477,66,13711,17642,922,2681,682,468,3892,683],"class_list":["post-787314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-washington-wizards","tag-alex-karaban","tag-basketball","tag-connecticut","tag-ct-news","tag-hartford-courant","tag-houston-rockets","tag-huskies","tag-local-news","tag-max-image-preview","tag-nba","tag-nba-summer-league","tag-sacramento-kings","tag-sports","tag-summer-league","tag-tristen-newton","tag-uconn","tag-uconn-mens-basketball","tag-washington","tag-washington-wizards","tag-washingtonwizards","tag-wizards"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116924559421572693","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787314","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=787314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}