Four Former Wildcats Open Play in NBA 2K25 Summer League

NBA teams will play round-robin games for a week starting Friday (July 12) until Friday, July 19 before the playoffs run from Saturday-Sunday, July 20-21 capped by the championship game on Monday, July 22.

Johnson, who will begin his second professional season in 2024-25, will play for the Oklahoma City Thunder, which drafted him in the second round of the 2023 NBA Draft. Nowell will play for the Washington Wizards after starting his career with the Toronto Raptors, while Perry will play for the Raptors after signing an Exhibition-10 deal on June 27. Sneed, who played with the Wildcats from 2016-20, will play for the Sacramento Kings.

Sneed and the Kings tip off the action on Friday (July 12) at 5 p.m., CT against the Memphis Grizzlies on NBA TV Canada before Nowell and the Wizards play the Atlanta Hawks at 8:30 p.m., CT on ESPN. Johnson and the Thunder open play against the Perry and the Raptors on Saturday (July 13) at 7:30 p.m., CT on NBA TV.

Nowell and the Wizards will be back in action on Sunday (July 14) against the Houston Rockets at 5 p.m., CT on ESPN2 with the Raptors and Perry playing the Denver Nuggets at 8:30 p.m. CT on NBA TV.

Johnson and Sneed will both play on Monday (July 15) on ESPNU with the Thunder facing the Heat at 5 p.m., CT and the Kings and Jazz playing at 9 p.m., CT.

Other games include the Wizards and Trail Blazers on Tuesday (July 16) at 7:30 p.m., CT on NBA TV, the Kings vs. the Knicks at 2:30 p.m., CT on Wednesday (July 17) on NBA TV followed by the Thunder and Suns at 7 p.m., CT on NBA TV and the Wizards and Kings on Thursday (July 18) at 6 p.m., CT on ESPN.

Both Toronto and Oklahoma City will wrap up round-robin play on Friday (July 19) with the Raptors facing the Heat at 8 p.m., CT on ESPN3, while the Thunder will play the Warriors at 9:30 p.m., CT pm NBA TV.

Johnson, who earned All-American honors in his lone season at K-State in 2022-23, helped the Thunder’s G-League team, the Oklahoma City Blue, won its first G-League title in April. He scored 14 points in the decisive 117-100 win over the Maine Celtics on April 15. For the season, he averaged 19.9 points on 52.4 percent shooting with 5.8 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.2 steals in 32.2 minutes per game.

A 2023 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year winner, Nowell played in just 13 games for the Raptors’ G-League team, the Raptors 905, before an injury sidelined him the rest of the 2023-24 season. He averaged 13.8 points on 40.7 percent shooting with 7.6 assists, 2.6 rebounds and 1.8 steals in 31.9 minutes per game.

Perry earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors in his one season at K-State after leading the Wildcats in several categories, including scoring (519), 3-point field goals made (93), free throws (160), assists (148) and minutes (2,238), while starting all 34 games. For the season, he averaged a team-best 15.3 points, 3.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 36.4 minutes per game. He scored nearly 2,500 points during his college career (2,490 points), which included stints at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College (2019-21), North Texas (2021-23) and K-State (2023-24).

Sneed spent the past season playing for Brindisi (Brindisi, Apulia, Italy) in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), which is the highest level of professional basketball in Italy. He faced off against former teammate Barry Brown Jr. (Venezia) and former Wildcat Jacob Pullen (Napoli) Sneed averaged 16.2 points in 27 games on 39.3 percent shooting with 6.3 rebounds, 1.7 assists and 1.3 steals in 32.7 minutes per game. He scored a season-high 28 points on Jan. 7 against Brescia.

Sneed recently played in 3 games for the Kings in the California Classic Summer League that ran from July 6-10, averaging 15.3 points, 4.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 2.0 steals in 30 minutes per game.

More information on the NBA 2K25 Summer League can be found here.

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