{"id":179776,"date":"2023-07-03T13:22:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=179776"},"modified":"2023-07-03T13:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T23:22:57","slug":"kamaka-hepa-2023-nba-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2023\/07\/03\/kamaka-hepa-2023-nba-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Rainbow Warrior Hepa to play in the 2023 NBA<\/abbr> Summer League"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

\"Kamaka<\/p>\n

Former University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa basketball player Kamaka Hepa will play for the New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> in the 2023 NBA<\/abbr> Summer League in Las Vegas. The Pelicans officially announced its roster July 3 with the 6-foot-10-inch stretch forward earning one of 13 spots on their summer roster.<\/p>\n

Hepa completed his two-year career with the Rainbow Warriors<\/a> this past spring after transferring from the University of Texas. The native of Utqiagvik, Alaska started all 60 games he appeared in at UH<\/abbr> and was a team captain both seasons. In his final collegiate season in 2022–23, he averaged 11.5 points, 6.6 rebounds and buried 67 3-pointers on 39% shooting, en route to earning all-Big West honorable mention.<\/p>\n

Before being picked up by New Orleans, Hepa did individual pre-draft workouts with the Golden State Warriors and Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n

All 76 games of the 11-day competition will air live on ESPN<\/abbr> television networks (ESPN<\/abbr>, ESPN2<\/abbr>, ESPNU<\/abbr> and ESPNews<\/abbr>) or NBA<\/abbr> TV<\/abbr>. Every game will also be available to stream on the ESPN<\/abbr> App or NBA<\/abbr> App. The Pelicans will also broadcast all of their NBA<\/abbr> 2024 Summer League games on Pelicans.com<\/a> and the Pelicans app.<\/p>\n

For the full story and schedule of the games visit hawaiiathletics.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa graduate Kamaka Hepa will play for the New Orleans Pelicans in the 2023 NBA<\/abbr> Summer League in Vegas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1362],"tags":[90,679,58,82,9,550],"class_list":["post-179776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-athletics","tag-basketball","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179821,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179776\/revisions\/179821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}