Despite the fact that they are less than two weeks removed from losing Game 7 of the NBA Finals, the Golden State Warriors have some more basketball to play this month.
On Friday, the Dubs announced their 16-man roster for the Las Vegas Summer League that is set to kick off on July 8 in Las Vegas. Assistant coach Jarron Collins will run the team, in the 11th season of the Warriors playing in the Vegas summer circuit.
Warriors are set to tip off their 11th summer in Las Vegas next week. Full Summer League roster below: pic.twitter.com/LM26speXJ2
— Warriors PR (@WarriorsPR) July 1, 2016
Golden State’s two draft picks, Damian Jones and Patrick McCaw, are both listed on the roster, though Jones will be out for several more months due to recent surgery on a torn pectoral muscle. Also included on the roster is former Warrior Ognjen Kuzmic, who played 37 games for the team from 2013-2015.
Two other NBA veterans are on the squad, with both carrying 5 years of experience. Stanford grad Landry Fields and Kansas alum Xavier Henry, who played 9 games for the Santa Cruz Warriors last season, will both present intriguing options for the Warriors to sign cheaply if they have a strong summer. Fields recently finished a disappointing three-year, $20 million deal with the Raptors after posting a strong first two seasons with the Knicks.
There is also a pair of intriguing prospects included who both made names for themselves in the NCAA last season. 7-foot-6 center Mamadou Ndiaye of UC Irvine posted 12 points and 7 rebounds per game last year as the tallest player in Divison I, and he went undrafted after leaving school a year early. Thomas Walkup, a four-year player from Stephen F. Austin, was one of the breakout players in the 2016 NCAA Tournament after he dropped 33 points and 9 rebounds in a first round upset over 3-seed West Virginia. He also went undrafted.
The rest of the roster is composed of former D-leaguers and recent college grads who are looking to, at the very least, secure an invite to an NBA training camp, with either the Warriors or another team. The Summer League will run from July 8-18, and the team will play 3 games before entering a single-elimination tournament to crown a league champion. Every game will be broadcast on ESPN or NBATV.
