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Fardaws Aimaq Not on Kings' Las Vegas Summer League Roster

Former Cal center Aimaq performed well in his two summer league games, but was held out Tuesday because of injury

Jake Curtis

Cal's Fardaws Aimaq during the 2024 Pac-12 tournament
Cal's Fardaws Aimaq during the 2024 Pac-12 tournament / Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports
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Former Cal center Fardaws Aimaq played two decent games for one of the Sacramento Kings’ two summer league teams over the weekend.  However, Aimaq was not one of the 14 players named to the Kings’ roster for the Las Vegas Summer League, which begins play on Friday.

Aimaq played his first two summer league games for the Kings No. 2 squad in the California Classics games at the Chase Center in San Francisco.  But he was held out of Tuesday's game because of an abdominal contusion

He picked up eight points, nine rebounds and four assists in the first game, and added four points, a team-high eight rebounds and a team-high five assists in the second game. Aimaq was a starter in both those games. The 6-foot-11 Aimaq was lauded for the many solid screens he set as well his ability to pass out of the post.

The Kings then shuffled their summer league rosters, and Aimaq was one of a handful of players moved from the Kings No. 2 squad to the Kings’ No. 1 roster.  However, Aimaq did not play when the Kings’ No. 1 team played its final game on Tuesday because of an abdominal injury.

The Kings’ No. 2 team played its final game Wednesday in San Francisco against the Warriors, but Aimaq was no longer on that Kings’ roster.

On Wednesday, the Kings released their roster for the upcoming Las Vegas Summer League, and that squad was made up of players from the Kings’ No. 1 and No. 2 teams that played in the California Classic summer games over the weekend.

Two undrafted players who played in the Pac-12 this past season – USC’s Boogie Ellis and Washington State’s Isaac Jones – are among the 14 players on the Kings’ Las Vegas roster, but Aimaq is not. It's uclear what Aimaq's status with the Kings is now.

Aimag averaged 14.5 points and led the Pac-12 in rebounding at 11.0 per game in his only season at Cal. He went undrafted in the recent NBA draft.

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Jake Curtis
JAKE CURTIS

Jake Curtis worked in the San Francisco Chronicle sports department for 27 years, covering virtually every sport, including numerous Final Fours, several college football national championship games, an NBA Finals, world championship boxing matches and a World Cup. He was a Cal beat writer for many of those years, and won awards for his feature stories.

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