After a year in which he garnered second team All-Rookie honors, John Collins arrived in NBA Summer League with almost an expectation of dominance. After all, players with his pedigree don’t always even appear on the floor in Las Vegas and, given the team’s quick jaunt to Salt Lake City, there was a bit of mystery as to whether Collins would play alongside Trae Young in the desert.
However, he did see action in two games and, predictably, Collins was tremendous in leading the entire, 30-team league in scoring (24.0 points per game) and generally reinforcing the idea that he was overqualified.