Matt Morgan ’19 Joins Los Angeles Clippers NBA Summer League Roster
ITHACA, N.Y. — Former Cornell men’s basketball star Matt Morgan ’19 will play in the upcoming NBA Summer League with the Los Angeles Clippers the team announced recently. His team will kick off the Las Vegas Summer League schedule against the Utah Jazz on Saturday, July 8 at 10 p.m. on ESPN2. The team will play a minimum of five games during the summer league season.
Morgan last played in the NBA Summer League in 2021 for the Toronto Raptors and averaged 11.3 points in just 14.7 minutes per game over four contests, shooting 57 percent from the floor, 50 percent from 3-point range (on 4.5 attempts per game) with 2.5 assists, 1.0 rebounds and a 3:1 assist:turnover ratio. Of players who saw action in at least four games in Last Vegas and made at least two 3-pointers per contest, his 50 percent shooting (9-of-18) from beyond the arc ranked second. The Raptors went 4-1 in five total games.
The 6-2 guard is coming off a tremendous season for Le Mans of the Fench Elite ProA League, finishing first-team all-league and as one of five finalists for MVP in a league that produced Victor Wembanyama, the first pick in the 2023 NBA Draft. He averaged 20.4 points, 4.1 assists, 2.5 rebounds and 0.9 steals while shooting at a 47-37-89 clip.
Cornell’s all-time leading scorer, Morgan graduated with career records for points scored (2,333), scoring average (20.5 ppg.), field goals made (743), field goals attempted (1,580) and free throws made (513), season records for points scored (687 in 2018-19) and 3-pointers made per game (3.32 in 2018-19), and game records for 3-pointers in a game (9, twice). In addition, he ranks in the top 10 in career 3-pointers made (second, 334), games started (second, 112), minutes played (third, 3,705), games played (third, 113), free-throw percentage (fourth, .834) and assists (eighth, 296) and just outside the top 10 in steals (12th, 126).
The four-time All-Ivy pick was a Lou Henson All-American as a junior, a two-time NBA Draft early entrant and the all-time leading freshman scorer in conference history. Morgan was an eight-time Ivy Player of the Week and a five-time conference rookie of the week pick. The second leading scorer in Ivy League history with 2,333 points, he finished behind only Princeton’s Bill Bradley (2,503), becoming the sixth Ivy League and 574th Division I basketball player to surpass 2,000 career points. He compiled an 80-game streak of scoring in double figures – an Ivy record and the 12th-longest in NCAA history. Morgan was a two-time first-team and two-time second-team All-Ivy pick, joining Big Red greats Bob DeLuca, John Bajusz, Louis Dale, Ryan Wittman and Shonn Miller as the only players in school history to be named All-Ivy first team more than once.
