Check out our first player analysis video on Jake Layman.
What happened after the 2018 Summer League?
We posted this in August 2018, a few weeks after the Portland Trail Blazers went unbeaten in Las Vegas and beat the Lakers 91–73 for the Summer League title. Jake Layman scored 10 points in that game. He’d averaged just 5.8 minutes a night over his first two NBA seasons, so the question was whether he’d finally get a real shot in Portland’s rotation.
He did. In 2018–19, Layman started 33 of the 71 games he played and averaged 7.6 points and 3.1 rebounds. Want an idea of what he could do when he got rolling? He scored 20 points in one quarter against the Pelicans that January.
That ended up being his best season in Portland. The following July, the Blazers sent him to the Minnesota Timberwolves in a sign-and-trade.