The NBA career of Isaiah Mobley is trying to take off. This July at the NBA summer league, Mobley gained more altitude.
Mobley scored 23 points with seven rebounds and five assists to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers’ summer league team over the Brooklyn Nets’ summer squad in a semifinal game. Mobley hit the game-winning basket to carry the Cavs to the championship round versus the Utah Jazz or the Houston Rockets.
The stakes are high enough for Mobley as it is. He is trying to stick on an NBA roster and create a steady career for himself at the highest level of professional basketball. Isaiah Mobley played 52 minutes in the last two games of the 2023 NBA regular season, when the Cavs were resting their starters for the playoffs. Other than those 52 minutes, Mobley barely played in the NBA last year, appearing as a garbage-time mop-up man who played just a handful of minutes per appearance. He spent most of his first year of pro ball in the G League. The obvious goal is to spend all of a season in the NBA and not have to go back to a developmental league.
All of that aside, if Isaiah can indeed stick with the Cavs’ NBA roster, his prize is that he would get to play on the same team with his brother, Evan Mobley. Sticking on an NBA roster is a reward in its own right, but doing so with Evan would be even more special.
This summer league performance has moved the needle in the right direction for this USC Trojan.
The Cavs take down the Nets in OT to advance to the Summer League Championship 🏆
Isaiah Mobley:
23 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists, 9-of-15 FGEmoni Bates:
20 points, 7 rebounds, 8-of-12 FG, 4-of-5 3PTSam Merrill:
19 points, 5 assists, 4 rebounds, 4 3PM pic.twitter.com/f5d0mpPCVx— ClutchPoints (@ClutchPointsApp) July 16, 2023
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