The Portland Trail Blazers’ defense of their 2018 Las Vegas Summer League tournament championship didn’t go the way they had hoped, but they’re still returning home with a little bit of hardware.
Despite appearing in just the first three games before sitting out the remainder of Portland’s schedule in Las Vegas with a sprained right ankle, Trail Blazers guard Anfernee Simons was named to the All-MGM Resorts NBA Summer League Second Team my media vote.
In his second stint in Las Vegas, the 6-4 guard out of IMG Academy averaged 22.0 points, which ranks seventh among 2019 participants, on 56 percent shooting from the field and 65 percent shooting from three, 4.