{"id":151156,"date":"2025-07-20T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=151156"},"modified":"2025-07-20T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T11:54:06","slug":"david-jones-garcia-starred-during-2025-summer-league-play-reportedly-suitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2025\/07\/20\/david-jones-garcia-starred-during-2025-summer-league-play-reportedly-suitor\/","title":{"rendered":"G-Leaguer Who Starred During 2025 Summer League Play Reportedly Has At Least One Suitor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Utah Jazz<\/a> two-way holder David Jones-Garcia<\/a> could be heading overseas after having an outstanding NBA Summer League<\/a> campaign.\u00a0 According to Greek reporter Tolis Kotzis, via\u00a0 Sportando,<\/a>\u00a0 Olympiacos is discussing a deal with Jones-Garcia.<\/p>\n

Jones-Garcia, who concluded the 2024-25 season with the G-League Mexico City Capitaines, starred for the San Antonio Spurs this summer. The 6-5 wing scored in double-figures in all seven of his Summer League appearances for the Spurs, who partook in the California Classic and Las Vegas Summer League<\/a>. Selected to the 2025 California Classic All-Tournamen<\/a>t teams, Jones averaged 21.2 points, 5.9 rebounds, 3.4 assists, and 1.4 steals. He also drained 3.1 threes with shooting splits of 51.5\/48.9\/86.9.<\/p>\n

Jones-Garcia went undrafted in 2024 after finishing his collegiate career with a huge season at Memphis<\/a>. Before landing with the Tigers, the 2024 All-AAC First Team performer spent one season at St. John’s<\/a> and two years at DePaul.<\/p>\n

G-Leaguer Who Starred During 2025 Summer League Play Reportedly Has At Least One Suitor<\/h2>\n
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Jul 14, 2025; Las Vegas, NV, USA; Utah Jazz guard Isaiah Collier (8) dribbles the ball against San Antonio Spurs forward David Jones-Garcia (25) during the first half of an NBA basketball game at the Thomas & Mack Center. Mandatory Credit: Lucas Peltier-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Despite not being selected in the 2024 draft, the Dominican Republic national signed a two-way contract with Philadelphia shortly after producing a solid summer league campaign with the 76ers. The 76ers released him prior to training camp last season.<\/p>\n

About a month into the 2024-25 season, Jones-Garcia signed a two-way deal with the Jazz. While Jones didn’t appear in an NBA game, he thrived in the G League with Salt Lake City and Mexico City. The G-League All-Rookie first team selection produced 21.3 points, 7.1 rebounds, 3.1 assists, and 1.3 steals. He knocked down 1.8 treys a game while shooting 48\/34.9\/87.9.<\/p>\n

While Olympiacos will probably offer Jones-Garcia more money than he would receive on a two-way deal, it is a surprise that an NBA team hasn’t already signed him. The athletic 23-year-old boasts an outstanding physique and a smooth left-handed shooting stroke.<\/p>\n

Jones-Garcia can do a little bit of everything, but putting the ball in the basket is his best attribute, though he does need to improve his 3-point shooting. Jones-Garcia produced eight double-doubles, one triple-double, and topped the 40-point mark in 44 G-League contests this past season.<\/p>\n

“He is a phenomenal player,” Spurs Summer League coach Mike Noyes told Tom Orsborn of The San Antonio Express-News<\/a>. “He belongs on an NBA court.”<\/p>\n

Jones-Garcia has a young core, similar to those of\u00a0Brooklyn,<\/a> Detroit<\/a>, Phoenix,<\/a> San Antonio<\/a>, Portland<\/a>, and Utah<\/a>. He would also be a good end-of-the-bench option for Boston<\/a>, New York,<\/a> Cleveland, Golden State, Los Angeles Clippers, Sacramento, Houston, or Denver. The previously mentioned teams, along with Indiana, Miami, Orlando, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, and Oklahoma City, have an open two-way spot.<\/p>\n

Olympiacos<\/h3>\n

Olympiacos is one of the most successful teams in Greece and the EuroLeague.\u00a0 They have claimed 15 Greek titles and three EuroLeague championships.<\/p>\n

Olympiacos finished first during the 2024-25 EuroLeague regular season, marking its second consecutive first-place finish in three seasons. But the Reds were upset in the Final Four by Monaco. However, they bounced back to win third place, 97-93, over Panathinaikos AKTOR.<\/p>\n

Former Sacramento Kings forward Sasha Vezenkov<\/a> and former 12-year NBA veteran Evan Fournier<\/a> lead the way for Olympiacos. Thomas Walkup<\/a> and 2015 NBA first-round selection Nikola Milutinov<\/a> are among the top players for the organization. Additionally, the Reds have added Kostas Antetokounmpo<\/a> and Donta Hall<\/a>, who have already appeared in 22 NBA contests this offseason.<\/p>\n

Photo Credit: \u00a9 Lucas Peltier<\/a>, Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former Utah Jazz two-way holder David Jones-Garcia could be heading overseas after having an outstanding NBA Summer League campaign.\u00a0 According to Greek reporter Tolis Kotzis, via\u00a0 Sportando,\u00a0 Olympiacos is discussing a deal with Jones-Garcia. Jones-Garcia, who concluded the 2024-25 season with the G-League Mexico City Capitaines, starred for the San Antonio Spurs this summer. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3146,"featured_media":151229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1608,5,6,9,20,2,61,16,62,33,12,3,22,17,13,28,23,29,34,24,18],"tags":[50219,1721],"class_list":["post-151156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","category-celtics","category-nets","category-cavaliers","category-nuggets","category-featured","category-international-basketball","category-heat","category-nba","category-pelicans","category-knicks","category-news","category-thunder","category-magic","category-76ers","category-suns","category-trailblazers","category-kings","category-spurs","category-jazz","category-wizards","tag-2025-nba-free-agents","tag-euroleague"],"modified_by":"Daniel Benjamin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151156"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151231,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151156\/revisions\/151231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}