Iowa State’s Matt Thomas scorched Las Vegas’ nets

For the last three days, it was the Matt Thomas & Mack Center.

OK, UNLV's arena is the Thomas & Mack Center. But former Iowa State guard Matt Thomas capped his NBA Las Vegas Summer League experience there with three days of shooting excellence. The culmination was his 23-point performance Monday in the Los Angeles Lakers' 110-98 championship-game win over the Portland Trail Blazers.

Thomas poured in 23 points on 8-of-9 shooting in Monday's title game, making all five of his 3-pointers.

He made 44.5 percent of his 3s as a Cyclone senior last season. So how did he take to the deeper NBA 3-point line? In the Lakers' last three games — played on consecutive days — he sank 14 of 16 threes.

Thomas' averages in those three games were 32.3 minutes, 20.0 points, 21-of-28 from the field. His team won Monday despite the absence of rookie sensation Lonzo Ball, who sat out the game with a sore calf.

Where Thomas goes from here is uncertain, as it is with most former Iowa collegians who played Summer League ball this year. But he got six straight starts with the Lakers in an eight-day stretch and rose to the challenge.

Also, Thomas has been named to the 2016-17 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Honors Court, which recognizes men's collegiate basketball student-athletes who excelled in academics during the past season.

As for the rest of the Iowa, Iowa State and Northern Iowa players who were in the Summer League …

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Peter Jok

. An undrafted free agent, he spent most of the Summer League as a spectator for the New Orleans Pelicans in the first five of their six games. He didn't play in three of them. Then he scored 22 points in 33 minutes in the Pelicans' finale, making 5 of 10 3-pointers.

Jarrod Uthoff.

The second-year pro got traded from Dallas to the Houston Rockets in late June. He played just 25 minutes over three Summer League appearances. Uthoff has a non-guaranteed contract for the 2017-18 season. What the Rockets have in mind for him is unclear.

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Deonte Burton.

The undrafted free agent forward played in five Summer League games for the Minnesota Timberwolves, averaging 11.4 minutes and 2.8 points.

Naz Mitrou-Long:

First, undrafted free agent Long played four games for Indiana's team in the Orlando Summer League. The guard averaged 19.8 minutes and 9.8 points. Then he played four games for Sacramento's team in Las Vegas, averaging 26 minutes and 9.8 points.

Mitrou-Long played 37 minutes in the Kings' finale, notching 21 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists.

Monte Morris: He was a second-round draft pick of the Denver Nuggets last month and got plenty of work in Las Vegas. He averaged 21.7 minutes in six games, with 9.5 points and 4.3 assists per game.

Denver has a glut of point guards in Emmanuel Mudiay, Jameer Nelson and Jamal Murray under contract, so Morris may spend much of his first pro season in the NBA Gatorade League (formerly the D-League).

Abdel Nader:

He played in four Summer League games with the Boston Celtics, averaging 26.8 minutes and 14.5 points. He missed the last few games with a strained calf muscle, but it didn't matter. The Celtics had seen enough. Last week they signed him to a 4-year, $6 million partially guaranteed contract with the Celtics.

Nader was a second-round draftee of Boston a year ago and spent the season at the team's D-League affiliate in Maine. He was that league's Rookie of the Year, averaging 21.3 points, 6.2 rebounds and 3.9 assists.

Georges Niang

: After spending his first season out of college with the Indiana Pacers, Niang was waived last week. He played in just two minutes of the Orlando Summer League before he sprained an knee. The Pacers are responsible for paying him $100,000 next season.

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Jeremy Morgan:

An undrafted free agent, he played just a total of 12 minutes over three games with the Memphis Grizzlies' team in Las Vegas.

Wes Washpun:

He also played with Memphis' team after playing part of last season with Iowa in the D-League. Washpun appeared in six games in Las Vegas, averaging 8.8 minutes and 1.8 points.

MARCUS PAIGE

The second-year pro from Linn-Mar High in Marion and the University of North Carolina spent all of last season with the Utah Jazz's D-League team in Salt Lake City, averaging 12.3 points.

He played three games in Orlando with Oklahoma City's Summer League team and five games with Minnesota's team in Las Vegas. He averaged 25.4 minutes, 10.9 points and 3.4 assists.

NOTE

NBA rosters will expand from 15 to 17 this season, but two of those spots will be what are known as two-way contracts, allowing players to spend up to 45 days with their respective NBA team and the rest of their season with a G-League affiliate.

For instance, Wisconsin's Bronson Koenig has signed a two-way contract with the Milwaukee Bucks.