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Drew Timme named second team All-G League

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The three-time Gonzaga All-American picked up another accolade this week when he was named All-G League.

Drew Timme who went from averaging 11.9 points and shooting 12.5% from three with the Stockton Kings to 23.9 points and shooting 38.5% from three with the Long Island Nets this year — and earning an NBA contract in the process — has been named to the All-G League second team.

The Long Island Nets announced the accolade…

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Timme quickly became the star of the Long Island Nets after he was traded by the Kings affiliate at the end of December in a three-team deal that sent Amari Bailey to the Iowa Wolves.

To compare, he was averaging 19.3 minutes per game with Stockton, putting up 11.9 points 5.9 rebounds and 2.8 assists before the December 30 deal. He had shot only 12.5% from deep, putting up only one attempt a game. Once in Long Island, those numbers essentially doubled across the board. The 6’10” 24-year-old averaged 23.9 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 4.1 assists while shooting 57.4% overall and 38.5% from three, averaging nearly three attempts.

On March 28, Timme was called up by Brooklyn and signed to two-year, $2,1 million contract with a team option for next season. With the big club, he surprised, averaging 12.1 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists in 28.7 minutes over nine games, starting two of them.

“It’s great to find a place where you’re given an opportunity to really be able to show what you have,” Timme told NetsDaily at the time. “It’s exactly what I wanted when the trade went through and I couldn’t be more happy to be here.”

In his next to last G League game, he put up 50 points shooting 18-of-21 shots and hitting the winning shot in overtime as Long Island defeated the Motor City Cruise. That won him the G League Player of the Week.

Timme went undrafted in 2023 NBA Draft despite being named to the AP All-American team three times, the last year earning first team honors and being named the Karl Malone Award winner as college basketball’s best power forward. He took Gonzaga to the NCAA championship game in 2021.

Among Timme’s AP All-American teammates in 2023 was Jalen Wilson who became his Nets teammate. Timme and Wilson have known each other since third game in the Dallas area.