Cameron Boozer Caps Grizzlies Summer League Title with Birthday And-1
Two clips from a Summer League championship game surfaced Monday, and the box-score brain in me can’t help but admire the efficiency of the final sequence: three rim attempts, one made basket, one drawn foul, one trophy, one birthday.
Cameron Boozer — son of two-time NBA All-Star Carlos Boozer and a Duke commit out of Christopher Columbus High School in Miami — missed twice point-blank before converting on his third try for an and-1 that sealed a Grizzlies Summer League championship win. The play came on his birthday, according to the video’s title. The clip shows Boozer battling underneath, getting rejected twice, then muscling through on the third attempt while drawing contact. The free throw would have completed the three-point play and iced the game.
A second highlight from the same contest features the opposition making things difficult for the Grizzlies’ interior. Quadir Copeland drove past Boozer and finished a reverse layup between Boozer and seven-foot center Lawson Lovering — a play that required navigating two defenders stacked at the rim and still finding the soft window. Chris Ledlum followed with his own and-1, powering through Lovering’s resistance on a drive to score through contact.
Lovering, who transferred from Colorado to UCLA ahead of the 2024-25 season, appeared to bear the brunt of the defensive workload inside. Both Copeland and Ledlum targeted him on separate drives, and both finished through or around him — not the kind of possession-by-possession outcome that shows up cleanly in a postgame stat sheet but the kind that swings win probability in a single-elimination setting.
The available video evidence confirms the plays as described, though broader game context — final score, opponent identity, which specific Summer League tournament this was — could not be independently verified. No mainstream coverage of the game had surfaced at the time of reporting. The two clips, hosted on Streamable, carried view counts in the low double digits.
What’s verifiable: Boozer, a 6’9″ forward widely regarded as one of the top prospects in the 2025 recruiting class, was wearing a Grizzlies uniform in a Summer League championship setting and delivered the clinching basket on his birthday. The optics alone — a Boozer in a Grizzlies jersey, grinding out a game-winner the way his father used to grind out 20-and-10s — carry a certain generational weight, even if the competition level and stakes remain partially unclear.
For a player heading to Duke this fall, Summer League reps against college-level and fringe-professional talent offer a useful baseline. Missing twice before converting isn’t ideal shot selection, but offensive rebounding into a made