Will Cummings

Will Cummings

  • Nationality: USA
  • Date of Birth: 7/10/92
  • Place of Birth: Jacksonville, Florida (USA)
  • Position: GRD
  • Height (CM): 188
  • Weight (KG): 84
  • Junior Assoc:
  • College: Temple (2011–2015)
  • NBL DEBUT: 28/09/23
  • AGE AT DEBUT: 30
  • LAST NBL GAME: 2/12/23
  • AGE AT LAST GAME: 31
  • NBL History: South East Melbourne 2024
  • Championships: 0
  • None

BIO: Will Cummings was born in Jacksonville, Florida (USA). where he attended Providence School. There, he averaged 18.1 points, 8.1 assists, 4.0 steals per game as a senior, in addition to carrying a 4.0 grade point average. The Jacksonville Times-Union named him the high school boys basketball player of the year. Cummings drew attention from Stanford, Miami (Fl.), and Boston College, but chose Temple because of their winning tradition.

NBL EXPERIENCE

Will Cummings made his NBL debut with the South East Melbourne Phoenix at 30 years of age. He scored 14 points in his first game.

A former teammate of Alan Williams having played together in Russia.

Will Cummings played one season in the NBL. He averaged 14.5 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.6 assists in 12 NBL games.

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NBL TOTAL STATISTICS

SEASONAGETEAMTEAM RECORDGPMINSPTSREBASTORDRSTLBLKTOPFFGMFGAFG%3PM3PA3P%FTMFTAFT%TS%EFG%HS
2023-2431South East Melbourne10-18 (10)12313.01743932112820119366514744%83523%364580%52%47%28
Totals123131743932112820119366514744.2%83522.9%364580.0%52%47%28

NBL PER GAME STATISTICS

SEASONAGETEAMTEAM RECORDGPMINSPTSREBASTORDRSTLBLKTOPFFGMFGAFG%3PM3PA3P%FTMFTAFT%TS%EFG%HS
2023-2431South East Melbourne10-18 (10)1226.114.53.32.70.92.31.70.11.63.05.412.344%0.72.923%3.03.880%52%47%28
Total1226.114.53.32.70.92.31.70.11.63.05.412.344.2%0.00.022.9%0.72.980.0%52%47%28

CAREER HIGHS

POINTS REBOUNDS ASSISTS STEALS BLOCKS TURNOVERS TRIPLE DOUBLES
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NBA EXPERIENCE

After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, Cummings joined the Houston Rockets for the 2015 NBA Summer League.

On September 3, 2015, he signed with the Rockets, only to be waived by the team on October 23 after appearing in six preseason games. On November 2, he was acquired by the Rio Grande Valley Vipers of the NBA Development League as an affiliate player of the Rockets. On November 13, he made his professional debut in a 110–106 win over the Idaho Stampede, recording 11 points and 5 assists in 32 minutes. On January 29, 2016, he was named in the West All-Star team for the 2016 NBA D-League All-Star Game.

At the seasons end, he was named to the All-NBA D-League Second Team and All-Rookie Team.

Cummings played for San Antonio Spurs for the 2016 NBA Summer League.

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Italy - Dolomiti Energia Trento (2016) | Greece - Aris Thessaloniki (2016–2017) | Turkey - Darüşşafaka (2017–2018) | Germany - Oldenburg (2018–2019) | Russia - Lokomotiv Kuban (2019–2021) | France - Metropolitans 92 (2021–2022) | China - Zhejiang ( 2022–2023) | Israel - Hapoel Tel Aviv (2024)

On April 29, 2016, Cummings chose to leave his G-League squad, the Rio Grande Valley, and pursue a career overseas. He signed with Dolomiti Energia Trento of the Italian LBA for the second half of their season.

On May 4, he made his debut with Dolomiti Energia in a 73–70 loss to Juvecaserta Basket, recording 12 points, three rebounds and two steals in 18 minutes of the bench.

After playing in the NBA summer league, Cummings signed with Greek Basket League club Aris Thessaloniki. in the semifinals of the 2017 Greek Cup, Cummings scored the game-winning lay-up against AEK Athens, to give Aris the ticket to the Cup Final against Panathinaikos Athens.

Cummings spend the 2017-18 season with Turkish club Darüşşafaka where he led them to the 2018 EuroCup title.

Cummings spent the 2018/19 season with German team EWE Baskets Oldenburg and earned the leagues MVP title at the end of the season. He also lead Oldenburg to the 2nd place in the regular season.

Cummings then signed a two-year contract with Lokomotiv Kuban of the Russian VTB United League. During his second year with the club he averaged 12.8 points, 2.0 rebounds, 3.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game during the 2020–21 season.

Cummings played a season in France with Metropolitans 92 of the LNB Pro A and then headed to China to play with the the Zhejiang Lions of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) for the 2022/23 season.

After being released from South East Melbourne due to failing to meet off-court requirements on multiple occasions, he signed a deal to play the remainder of the season with Israels Hapoel Tel Aviv.

COLLEGE

As a freshman, Cummings averaged 1.4 points and 0.8 rebounds in 6.3 minutes per game. He started versus George Washington and posted 2 points and a assist.

Cummings played in 34 games as a sophomore, starting 32, and averaged 5.8 points, 1.9 assists, and 1.4 steals per game. He posted double-figures scoring in six games, including a season-high 15 points in a victory over Rhode Island.

In his junior season, Cummings was a Second Team Philadelphia Big 5 selection. He averaged 16.8 points, a team-leading 4.6 assists and 1.5 steals in 34.4 minutes per game. He scored 31 points in a game against UCF.

As a senior, Cummings was named to the First Team All-American Athletic Conference. He missed a game against Cincinnati after suffering a strained muscle in his leg on January 10, 2015.[6] He led the team in scoring (14.8 points per game), assists (4.2 per game) and steals (1.9 per game). With 189 free throws made, he finished tied for second in school history in made free throws in a season. Additionally, Cummings completed his collegiate career 35th on Temple's all-time scoring list, and led the team to a 17-win improvement from the previous year, the highest in the nation. Temple reached the NIT semifinals.

AWARDS

- EuroCup champion (2018)
- All-EuroCup First Team (2022)
- LNB Pro A MVP (2022)
- All-Pro A First Team (2022)
- Bundesliga MVP (2019)
- Bundesliga Top Scorer (2019)
- All-Bundesliga First Team (2019)
- German All-Star (2019)
- Greek League Top Scorer (2017)
- All-Greek League Second Team (2017)
- Greek Cup Finals Top Scorer (2017)
- All-NBA D-League Second Team (2016)
- NBA D-League All-Rookie Team (2016)
- NBA D-League All-Star (2016)
- First-team All-AAC (2015)

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