Leading up to the 2017 NBA Summer League, the majority of the hype was surrounding Lonzo Ball, and for that matter; Markelle Fultz, Jayson Tatum, and De’Aaron Fox. However, the best part about Summer League is the guys who literally come out of nowhere and surprise us all.

Take Adam Morrison for example. In 2012, an older-than-most Morrison tore up the NBA Summer League — two years removed from his final NBA game. It goes to show you just never know what’s going to happen in Vegas.

Sometimes the best performers don’t make NBA rosters, though, regardless of the numbers they put up. There are only so many spots on the big-league rosters, so you really need to put up monster numbers and pass the eye test.

For instance, Morrison did not make a team after his breakout performance in 2012, proving that sometimes reputation can trump skill.

But, Morrison is the outlier here.

Most of these guys don’t have reputations in the league yet and are looking to gain precisely that. You could argue that the competition isn’t top notch in the Summer League, but in hoops, you sort of know when you see it. This year, you can see it with two rookies in Los Angeles…and neither are named Lonzo Ball.

While Ball has shown flashes of decent hoop, fellow Lakers’ rookies Kyle Kuzma and Josh Hart are stealing the show. Both were proven winners in college and have looked extremely comfortable in the NBA setting.

Kuzma is a guy I’ve been hot on for a long time, dating back to his early days in the Pac-12. He was the primary scorer at Utah last season (16.4 ppg) and was a key role player in his freshman and sophomore seasons. When all was said and done, the Utes won 20-or-more games in all three of Kuzma’s seasons and he finished shooting over 50 percent in his college career.

Ironically, Kuzma shot only 30.2 percent from downtown in his Utah career, but so far in his first few Summer League games, he’s proved to have little problem banging threes from NBA range. Through two games, he has gone 5 of 13 from three-point land, highlighted by a 31-point outburst in their loss to Boston on Saturday night.