McCallum Earns NBA Summer League Championship MVP

LAS VEGAS -- Behind a 29-point, nine-rebound effort, 2013 Horizon League Player of the Year Ray McCallum (Beverly Hills, Mich./Detroit Country Day) earned most valuable player honors in the NBA Summer League championship game on Monday night, leading the Sacramento Kings to a 77-68 win over the Houston Rockets at the Thomas & Mack Center.

McCallum, who starred for Detroit from 2010-13 and collected two First Team All-Horizon League honors during that time, scored nine of his game-high 29 points in the fourth quarter as the Kings overcame an eight-point deficit with 5:28 to play.

After the Kings went up by one with 2:08 to play, McCallum scored seven straight points for Sacramento to help seal the game.

In helping the Kings go 6-1 at the Summer League, McCallum averaged averaged 12.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, and 4.1 assists during his seven games. After being tabbed with the 36th overall pick in the 2013 NBA Draft by Sacramento, McCallum appeared in 45 games, averaging 6.2 points, 1.8 rebounds and 2.9 assists.

Highlights from the game can be viewed here.

McCallum was one of six former Horizon League standouts competing in the Summer League, joining Travis Bader (Oakland/Philadelphia, Golden State), Alec Brown (Green Bay/Phoenix), Eli Holman (Detroit/Miami), Nick Minnerath (Detroit/Brooklyn) and Kendrick Perry (Youngstown State/Orlando).