On Tuesday, the NBA announced its first- and second-team selections for the Las Vegas Summer League. There was a pattern among the members of the first team, as well as all but one member of the second team. That member is probably the least known of the 10 names on the two teams, but he's working towards changing that.
That player is the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Zyon Pullin. Minnesota signed the 6-foot-4 guard to a two-way deal in March, but he would love to earn his first ever NBA standard contract. After Tuesday, he becomes just the second member of the Timberwolves to be named to an All-Summer League team, joining Terrence Shannon Jr. last year.
The 2026 NBA All-Summer League Second Team:
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) July 21, 2026
Cedric Coward, @memgrizz
Egor Dёmin, @BrooklynNets
Khaman Maluach, @Suns
Liam McNeeley, @hornets
Zyon Pullin, @Timberwolves
The team was selected by a vote of all 30 NBA teams based on performance at Summer League in Las Vegas. pic.twitter.com/jbkB0XsQvt
For the 2026 All-Summer League First Team, each member was a 2026 NBA Draft pick. Four of them were lottery picks: Cameron Boozer (third pick), Caleb Wilson (fourth pick), Brayden Burries (10th pick), and Yaxel Lendeborg (11th pick). Meleek Thomas (34th pick) was the other member.
The 2026 All-Summer League Second Team consisted of four 2025 first-round picks: Egor Demin (eighth pick), Khaman Maluach (10th pick), Cedric Coward (11th pick), and Liam McNeeley (29th pick). Then there was Pullin, who went undrafted in 2024 and has appeared in only eight NBA regular season games over two years.
The Timberwolves need to hold on to Zyon Pullin
Pullin's performance in the summer league, though, has many wondering if the Timberwolves should offer him a standard contract rather than just a two-way contract. Minnesota currently has two open roster spots, and they may find it worthwhile to use one on the 25-year-old.
In his five summer league outings, Pullin averaged 21.0 points, 4.6 rebounds, and 7.8 assists. He scored at least 23 points in three of those games and also recorded double-digit assist totals twice.
During the Amazon broadcast of the Timberwolves’ summer league opener, broadcaster and former NBA head coach Stan Van Gundy went so far as to say he would be “shocked if Zyon Pullin isn’t on an NBA roster” and that he “would not be the least bit surprised if he was in someone’s rotation.” Certainly high praise from someone who has been around the game for a long time.
It would behoove the Timberwolves to find a way to keep him in Minnesota even if their guard position is deep. He's proven to be an NBA-level player at the very least, and that's someone you should want to keep in-house.
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