Magic’s lottery picks Anthony Black, Jett Howard top Las Vegas summer league roster
The Orlando Magic 2023 summer league roster is headlined by No. 6 draft pick Anthony Black and No. 11 pick Jett Howard, the team announced Thursday.
The pair will be joined by a mixture of mostly other rookies, second-year players and free agents who will play at least five games played in Las Vegas. Tyger Campbell, who started all 133 games he played at UCLA where he’s No. 2 all-time in NCAA tournament assists and led them to a Final Four, went undrafted last week. Kai Sotto went undrafted in 2022 and played in Australia professionally. He’s an intriguing prospect because of his size at 7-3 as he’s trying to become the first Filipino-born player in the NBA.
The No. 32 pick in last year’s draft, Caleb Houstan, and two-way guard Kevon Harris, members of last season’s team, also are scheduled to participate.
All 30 NBA teams will play four games from July 7-14 at the Thomas & Mack Center and the Cox Pavilion located on the campus of UNLV.
The top four teams will advance and participate in the semifinals on July 16 (4 p.m. ET, ESPN; 6, ESPN2). The semifinal winners advance to the championship game the next night (9, ESPN).
The 26 teams that do not advance to the four-team playoff will play a fifth game on either July 15 or 16.
Orlando will be led by Dylan Murphy, who was named head coach of the Osceola Magic, the franchise’s NBA G League affiliate, and summer league coach on Wednesday.
Summer league roster
G Anthony Black 6-7 (Arkansas)
F Caleb Houstan 6-8 (Michigan)
G Kevon Harris 6-6 (Stephen F. Austin)
G-F Jett Howard 6-8 (Michigan)
G Tyger Campbell 5-11 (UCLA)
F JC Butler 6-5 (UC Irvine)
G Amauri Hardy 6-1 (Oregon)
G Au’Diese Toney 6-6 (Arkansas)
F D.J. Wilson 6-10 (Michigan)
G Tyler Hall 6-5 (Montana State)
G Quinndary Weatherspoon 6-3 (Mississippi State)
G Drake Jeffries 6-5 (Wyoming)
G Elijah Hughes 6-5 (Syracuse)
G Dexter Dennis 6-5 (Texas A&M)
F-C Robert Baker II 6-11 (Harvard)
F Malcolm Hill 6-6 (Illinois)
G Montez Mathis 6-4 (St. John’s)
G Jamal Bey 6-6 (Washington)
F Elyjah Williams 6-7 (Northwestern)
G Malik Ellison 6-6 (Hartford)
G Davion Warren 6-6 (Texas Tech)
C Kai Sotto 7-3 (Hiroshima)
2023 MAGIC SUMMER LEAGUE SCHEDULE
July 8 vs. Detroit, 5:30 p.m. ET, ESPN
July 10 vs. Indiana, 8:30, NBA TV
July 12 vs. New York, 8, ESPN2
July 13 vs. Portland, 9, ESPN2
*Fifth game TBD
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