Friday, October 30, 2009

NBA summer league winds down for former LSU players

BATON ROUGE – Four former LSU men’s basketball players completed their NBA summer league basketball stints as the 21-team event came to a close on Sunday night.

The Summer League took place July 10-19 at two locations in Las Vegas.

Anthony Randolph, who played for LSU during the 2007-08 season and the Golden State Warriors during the 2008-09 year, averaged 26.8 points in four summer league games, hitting 60.9 percent from the floor. He also averaged 1.3 assists and 3.0 blocks per contest. He had 42 points in a win over the Bulls summer league team and three double doubles in his four games.

Marcus Thornton, the 2009 SEC player of the year and a second-round draft pick of the New Orleans Hornets, had three good efforts before having to miss his team’s last two games with a strained right ankle. Thornton average 20.7 points per game in 29.7 minutes per contest. In the three games, he shot 44 percent from the field and averaged 3.3 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game.

Terry Martin, playing as a free agent for the Hornets, played in two games, averaging 6.5 minutes and 4.0 points per game.

Garrett Temple played as a free agent for the Houston Rockets team that tied with the Memphis Grizzlies as the only undefeated 5-0 teams in the summer league. Temple saw action in all five games, averaging 12.6 minutes a contest. He averaged 4.6 points per game and shot 38 percent from the field.

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