Caleb Wilson is wasting no time making noise in Las Vegas.
The Chicago Bulls rookie, taken No. 4 in the draft, has already started turning Summer League into his personal showcase, and Monday’s game against the Utah Jazz gave him another chance to flash why Chicago wanted him. The Bulls were down big when Wilson took over in the fourth quarter, stringing together seven straight points and helping fuel the kind of late surge that gets people talking even in a loss.
By the final buzzer, Wilson had put up 19 points, going 8-for-17 from the field and adding five blocks. Chicago still fell to Utah, but the box score only tells part of the story. Wilson looked like a player who could handle the grind, bring force, and keep coming.
The play that really caught fire came in that fourth quarter, when Wilson threw down a dunk that quickly made the rounds online. The NBA posted the clip on X, and it’s already climbed to nearly 3 million views.
"Caleb Wilson hammers it home," the league exclaimed on the post.
That wasn’t the only reaction the dunk drew. The NBA also shared that No. 2 overall pick Darryn Peterson was left speechless by the play.
Wilson had already given people plenty to talk about before Monday. In his game against the Memphis Grizzlies, he scored 35 points, a performance now being called the unofficial highest-scoring Summer League debut.
For the Bulls, that kind of production is exactly what they needed to see. Wilson is making a strong early case that Chicago got it right at No. 4, and he’s doing it fast in the heat of Las Vegas.
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