All that’s left of the 2025 NBA Summer League is the assessing. Greg Finberg published grades. Before summer league, I wrote about a study by a team of economists indicating that summer league performance may have predictive power of regular season performance in the following season.
Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the stats.
Before we get to this summer’s Wizards, let’s start with this analysis from Owen Phillips’ F5 Substack: Summer League Stats You Can Trust. Phillips analyzes which stats are “stickiest” — meaning which ones are most predictive of how the player will perform in their rookie year.