Former Kansas guard Zeke Mayo is getting another crack at turning pro momentum into an NBA opportunity.
Mayo has been invited to join the Atlanta Hawks’ Summer League team this season, according to Henry Greenstein of the Lawrence Journal-World. It’s the latest step for a player whose game has already traveled from South Dakota State to Kansas and then into the Cleveland Cavaliers’ G-League system.
At Kansas, Mayo made his one season count. He put up 14.6 points per game while shooting 44.7% from the field and 42.2% from three, adding 4.8 rebounds and 2.9 assists.
His high-water mark came in a 62-61 loss to West Virginia, when he dropped 27 points. That production earned him 2025 All-Big 12 Third Team honors on a Jayhawks squad that went 21-13 and was bounced from the NCAA Tournament in the first round by Arkansas, 79-72.
Before arriving in Lawrence, Mayo had already shown he could score at a high level. In his sophomore and junior seasons at South Dakota State, he averaged 18.5 points and shot better than 40% from the field.
His first pro season came with the Cleveland Charge, where he appeared in 36 games and made two starts. Mayo averaged 8.2 points, 2.4 rebounds and 2.9 assists in 21.4 minutes per game while shooting 40.1% from the field.
The appeal is obvious: Mayo can fill it up when the shot is falling. The issue has been consistency.
He had stretches at Kansas where he could run hot and shoot over 50%, but there were also too many nights when the scoring dried up. In the 2024-25 season, he shot 40% or worse 16 times.
That uneven stretch is part of why the next step matters. Mayo finished second on Kansas in scoring behind Hunter Dickinson, who led the team with 17.4 points, and he was one of only two Jayhawks to average in double figures. Kansas as a team ranked No. 46 nationally in field goal percentage at 47.0% and No. 91 in scoring at 76.1 points per game.
Atlanta will take Mayo through both the Salt Lake City Summer League and the official NBA Summer League. Salt Lake City begins July 4 and runs through the 6th and 7th, with the official league starting two days later. The Hawks reached the playoffs last season for the first time in three years and lost to the New York Knicks in six games in the first round.
If Mayo can smooth out the cold stretches and lift his baseline a bit, he’ll give himself a real chance to keep climbing in the G-League and stay in front of NBA scouts and general managers.
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