Staff report

CHARLOTTE — The NBA Summer League doesn’t register on the radar all that often, but Matt Morgan had a game recently that got some attention.

Morgan shot 11-for-11, including 7-for-7 on 3-pointers, and scored 36 points for the Charlotte Hornets team in an 84-68 win against Portland. That’s a record for Hornets summer league entries.

Morgan is a name a lot of local basketball fans will remember, especially if they were fans of one of the Rowan County basketball teams in the South Piedmont Conference a while back. Morgan, whose father played at Georgetown, was a handful when he suited up for the Cox Mill Chargers.

That 36-point game didn’t get Morgan a roster spot with the Hornets, but it did land him a nice new contract. He signed over the weekend with Virtus Segafredo Bologna, a team that competes in Italy’s top pro league.

Morgan, a 6-foot-3 shooting guard, was a scholar-athlete and is the all-time leading scorer at Cornell University, where he poured in 2,333 points.

Morgan, now 26, spent two years with the Toronto Raptors G-League team. He played in Turkey and France before dominating with the London Lions last season, where he was league MVP.