The 2026 California Classic begins tonight at the Chase Center in San Francisco.
Welcome to the 2026 NBA Summer League! We open the festivities with the 2026 California Classic, coming to you live on Prime Video, ESPN and ESPNU tonight.
Golden State, Miami, San Antonio and the Los Angeles Lakers will play in San Francisco during the event. A second Golden State team, plus Sacramento, Brooklyn and Milwaukee will play in Sacramento, where play tips off tomorrow.
Catch all the excitement with the NBA.com live blog!
JULY 3 / 8:10 p.m. ET
The Heat open the summer scoring
Jahmir Young breaks the seal on the 2026 Summer League with a 15-foot jumper.
The Maryland product played 14 games with the Heat in 2025-26, averaging 1.8 ppg in 4.1 mpg.
JULY 3 / 6:40 p.m. ET
The summer begins to heat up
Our first game of the summer features the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs (8 ET, Prime / ESPN).
Miami will be led by second-year guard Myron Gardner and second-round pick Ryan Conwell, while San Antonio features second-year wing Carter Bryant and rookies Jayden Quaintance and Tarris Reed Jr.
JULY 3 / 6:30 p.m. ET
New rule in play for Summer League
This summer, we’ll be testing the one free throw rule, which has been in place in the G League since the 2019-20 season.
The G League and Summer League have often served as testing labs for the league before bringing rule changes or amended policies into NBA games.
Among those that started at those levels and eventually got to the NBA: the coaches’ challenge, resetting the 24-second shot clock to 14 seconds in offensive rebound situations and the one-shot award for a transition take foul — which is when a defender intentionally commits a foul to halt a transition opportunity for the opposition.
The one free throw rule will be tested at the upcoming NBA summer leagues.
With this rule, any foul that would typically result in one, two or three free throws under standard NBA rules will instead result in a single free throw attempt. That attempt will be worth the same… pic.twitter.com/tFiOpJLnQW
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) July 2, 2026
The 2026 Summer League will also use a “connected basketball,” which contains a sensor that detects contact with the ball.
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