Former UNM Lobo, NMSU Aggie, Mountain West and other players of interest on NBA Summer League rosters
As of the evening of July 3, there was at least one former New Mexico Lobo, one former NM State Aggie, more than a dozen former Mountain West conference players and even a pair of former UC San Diego players who played for new Lobos coach Eric Olen this past season who have been invited and signed to play on various NBA Summer League teams.
While the primary NBA Summer League is in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 10-20, there are also summer league events with some teams starting Saturday (July 5) in Salt Lake City and San Francisco.
Below is a list of players who have publicly signed with NBA teams for this year's Summer League games. Listed after their name is the last college they played for and in parenthesis other colleges they played at, though not all of them were in college this past season.
Atlanta Hawks
• Lamont Butler, Kentucky (San Diego State)
• Nelly Junior Joseph, New Mexico (Iona)
Boston Celtics
• Hayden Gray, UC San Diego
• Max Shulga, VCU (Utah State)
Chicago Bulls
• Caleb Grill, Missouri (Iowa State, UNLV)
• Micah Parrish, Ohio State (San Diego State)
Cleveland Cavaliers
• Darius Brown II, Utah State (Montana State, Cal State Northridge)
Denver Nuggets
• Donovan Williams, UNLV (Texas)
Houston Rockets
• Great Osobor, Washington (Utah State, Montana State)
• David Roddy, Colorado State
Indiana Pacers
• Steven Ashworth, Creighton (Utah State)
• RayJ Dennis, Baylor (Toledo, Boise State)
LA Clippers
• Kobe Sanders, Nevada (Cal Poly)
Los Angeles Lakers
• DaJuan Gordon, UT Arlington (New Mexico State, Missouri, Kansas State)
• Sir'Jabari Rice, Texas (New Mexico State)
• Ethan Taylor, Air Force
Miami Heat
• Keshad Johnson, Arizona (San Diego State)
• Marcus Williams, San Francisco (Texas A&M, Wyoming)
Sacramento Kings
• Nique Clifford, Colorado State (Colorado)
San Antonio Spurs
• Chibuzo Agbo, USC (Boise State, Texas Tech)
• Nathan Mensah, San Diego State
• Omari Moore, San Jose State
• Josh Uduje, San Jose State (Utah State, Coastal Carolina)
Toronto Raptors
• Tyson Degenhart, Boise State
• Aniwaniwa Tait-Jones, UC San Diego
Utah Jazz
• Elijah Harkless, UNLV
• John Tonje, Wisconsin (Missouri, Colorado State)