Thursday night’s matchup between Cooper Flagg and the Dallas Mavericks and Bronny James and the Los Angeles Lakers was the fourth-most-watched Summer League game ever, per ESPN.

Rookie Tre Johnson leads the Washington Wizards against the Phoenix Suns tonight, as summer league action continues from Las Vegas.

Cooper Flagg is already an NBA star in one respect. The first overall pick of the 2025 NBA Draft made his Summer League debut on Thursday and, alongside another ratings-driver in Bronny James, drew an average of 955,000 viewers via Nielsen metrics, ESPN announced Friday. That's the fourth-highest recorded viewership in Summer League history.

This article was originally published on www.si.com as Cooper Flagg Thinks NBA Summer League Debut Was One of the Worst Games of His Life.

The most anticipated on-court event on the summer basketball calendar begins Thursday as the Las Vegas Summer League gets started with a seven-game slate. The headlining matchup of the multi-week event from Sin City will feature No.

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Reed Sheppard dominated last year's NBA Summer League. In four games, the No. 3 overall pick averaged 20 points, 4.8 rebounds, 5.3 assists, 2.7 steals, and 1.3 blocks before being pulled from the lineup for the summer. The Houston Rockets had witnessed all they needed to see.

This social media dream matchup is the most anticipated game of the 2025 NBA Summer League – the 17,923-seat Thomas & Mack Center is already sold out. According to TickPick, the current “get-in” price for a Thursday Summer League ticket is $83, which jumps to $643 for the lower bowl in the Thomas & Mack, and courtside tickets are going for $2,519.