The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox.It did not take long, with me sitting near John Hollinger in the Thomas & Mack Center at Las Vegas Summer League, for Atlanta Hawks and Arizona Wildcats legend Salim Stoudamire to become a topic of conversation. Summer league is so back.Summer SchoolDybantsa vs. Peterson was a lot of funNo. 1 pick AJ Dybantsa and No. 2 pick Darryn Peterson have been linked together for years. As the two best prospects in their class, they’re the guys people want to debate. And after they went 1-2 in the 2026 NBA Draft — with Dybantsa to the Wizards and Peterson to the Jazz — we get to keep having that debate. Luckily for us, they seem to love competing against each other.The Summer Wizards and the Summer Jazz squared off in a primetime matchup in Las Vegas last night, and it was so fun to be in the arena for it. After watching Yaxel Lendeborg and Morez Johnson Jr. play each other in the previous game, the Dybantsa-Peterson saga continued in spectacular fashion.They’ve squared off against each other a few times, and Dybantsa finally got the better of Peterson in a game, finishing with 27 points (7-of-18 shooting) and seven rebounds in the Wizards’ 92-88 win. Dybantsa also had this highlight dunk over Justin Harmon, finishing with two hands before flexing on everybody.Peterson finished with 24 points, but was only 6-of-18 from the field and had eight turnovers and nine fouls (remember, you get 10 in summer league). We don’t need some grandiose speech about what these two players did and what it means. But I’ll unload my notes here:
Kawhi back to Raptors is on hold. Plus: AJ Dybantsa and Darryn Peterson put on a show
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