Drew Timme, who signed a multi-year deal with the Brooklyn Nets in March and had his contract option picked up at the end of June, will be joining the team’s Summer League roster in Las Vegas later this month. The former Gonzaga standout has already played in nine NBA games, but he is not taking anything for granted.
“I’m still trying to make it and stay in it,” Timme told CBS Sports in a recent interview. “It was cool to make it, but you know, it can also get taken away at any moment too, just as it got given. So you know, just trying to continue to work to stay in the league and do whatever it takes. That’s kind of where I’m at right now.”
Timme left Gonzaga as the program’s all-time leading scorer with 2,307 career points. He was also a leading part of the Zags’ 2021 NCAA Tournament team that made it to the championship game.
Timme, 24, went undrafted in 2023 but got an Exhibit 10 contract to keep developing at the professional level. Since then, Timme has worked on improving a few different areas of his game, particularly 3-point shooting — something he rarely did at Gonzaga.
“I’m a pretty good shooter now, so just continuing to work on that and continue building on it,” he said. “That’s the name of the game. Now you gotta be able to shoot the 3.”
Timme played in nine NBA games for the Nets, two of them as a starter, late in the 2024-25 season. His first game was on March 28 against the Los Angeles Clippers and he had a solid showing with an 11-point, 10-rebound double-double. However, it didn’t take long for him to experience his first welcome to the NBA moment.
“My first game we played the Clippers, and Kawhi Leonard just, I was dribbling the ball, and he just stole the ball from behind me,” Timme recounted. “But it was like a vacuum. He just engulfed it and I was like, ‘Yo!’ Because I thought I could maybe get the ball back. And then I saw it was him and I was like, ‘Oh, no. It’s a wrap.'”
The Nets lost that game, but Timme got 19 points a day later to help his team get a win over the Washington Wizards. His…
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