Former Cooper High School standout Adam Kunkel will get his NBA chance.
Kunkel recently agreed to join the Golden State Warriors for the NBA Summer League. He played the last three seasons at Xavier University before starting his college career with Belmont during the 2018-19 season. Kunkel averaged 10.9 points and shot 42% from the 3-point line in his final college season. The Hebron native scored 1,394 points in his college career. He had pre-draft workouts with the Warriors and New York Knicks before going undrafted in the 2023 NBA Draft on June 22.
Golden State will start Summer League play on July 3 in the California Classic Summer League in Sacramento with two games before playing in Las Vegas starting on July 7. The majority of Summer League games are on television via ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and NBATV. The full Summer League schedule can be found here: https://www.nba.com/news/2023-summer-league-schedules
At Cooper, Kunkel helped lead the Jaguars to the KHSAA Sweet Sixteen state championship game in his junior season, finishing runner-up to Bowling Green. Kunkel was the second leading scorer on the team that season behind Sean McNeil. Kunkel led the Jaguars in scoring his senior season with 20.0 points per game, finishing 9th Region runner-up to Covington Catholic.
If Kunkel impresses over the summer, the Warriors roster situation is currently a tricky one that’s hard to project. They recently traded away Jordan Poole and Draymond Green rejected his player option for the upcoming season. In the Poole trade, they acquired Chris Paul who was traded away from the Suns earlier. The Warriors have plenty of roster spots open, only eight players under contract for the upcoming season. The NBA free agency period begins July 1.