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OMax was the best of the four Marquette guys at Summer League | Photo by Candice Ward/NBAE via Getty Images
The 2026 NBA Summer League wrapped up on Tuesday night with the Golden State Warriors securing a 94-90 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies in the championship game. There were four teams — including the Grizzlies! — that had a former Marquette player on the roster. Let’s take a moment to evaluate how each of them were used by their various franchises, and rank how the trip to Vegas went for the four of them.
#1 — Olivier-Maxence Prosper
5 games played, started all five games
26.6 minutes per game
14.4 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.0 assists per game
43.5% from the field, 28.6% on threes, 57.1 on free throws
The easy winner here because Prosper is the only one of the four to play in more than three games. He didn’t play in all of Memphis’ contests, taking a DNP in their third game in Nevada. Unfortunately for OMax, a lot of this would look a little bit better if he didn’t go 4-for-12 including 0-for-7 on threes in the championship game. In fact, given that the game was decided by four points, shooting 2-for-7 (under 29%!) could have tilted things in his team’s favor. Still, he was clearly a big part of Memphis’ plan for what they wanted to accomplish in Las Vegas, and I suspect that the reason why a guy with 145 games played in three seasons was in Summer League at all was because they wanted to get OMax used to playing with Cameron Boozer and Cedric Coward.
#2 — Kam Jones
3 games played, started all three games
23.3 minutes per game
10.0 points, 3.3 rebounds, 5.0 assists, 1.7 steals per game
44.0% from the field, 35.7% on threes, 100% on free throws (2/2 in one game)
Only three games played for Kam Jones, but they were Milwaukee’s last three games in Las Vegas after he sat out the first two. He was something of a late add to their Summer League roster given the timing of when he agreed to his two-way contract with the Bucks, so it’s not a surprise he sat out originally. Once they decided to get him into a game, it was straight into the starting lineup for him, and his minutes played went up in each successive contest. I don’t know if that bodes well for the possibilities of Jones getting his two-way converted to a full time contract as the 2026-27 season goes a long, but it’s not a bad thing, that’s for sure. I like that he was hitting his threes, and he was 5-for-12 (41.7%) after two misses in his first contest. Jones did not shoot the three well at all with the Pacers this past season, so perhaps all of that is behind him now.
#3 — Stevie Mitchell
3 games played
16 total minutes
2-for-2 from the field, 1-for-1 on threes
8 points, 2 rebounds, two steals in total
It’s a narrow fight to avoid being ranked last here, but Stevie Mitchell catches the win because he didn’t play in Houston’s first two games, but he did play in their final three games. That includes getting on the court for six minutes in their semifinal loss to Memphis, and that’s something that our fourth and final player did not accomplish. No shade to Stevie for his relative lack of playing time here, he wasn’t a regular fixture in the lineup for Houston’s G League team this season, so no surprise that he was way down on the depth chart/playing time priority in Summer League.
#4 — Chase Ross
3 games played
25 total minutes
3-for-4 from the field
6 points, 1 assist, 1 block in total
Do you remember when I said that you shouldn’t take Ross getting an Exhibit 10 contract with the Los Angeles Lakers as anything other than “he’s been invited to training camp” back when he signed? Yeah. Ross played 13 minutes in Los Angeles’ first game in Vegas, then didn’t play in the second, logged nine minutes then three in the next two games, and then didn’t play at all in their semifinal game against Golden State. Given how his run in California at the beginning of the month went, I don’t think we should be surprised that he didn’t play in the semifinal game…. but also this is definitely tilting towards “he doesn’t have a future with a two-way contract with LA, much less a full time deal.”
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