photo by: AP Photo/Julio Cortez

Kansas's Parker Braun (23) scores a basket in front of Baylor's RayJ Dennis (10), Miro Little (1) and Yves Missi (21) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game, Saturday, March 2, 2024, in Waco, Texas.

Another member of the Braun family will suit up for the Denver Nuggets — at least for a stint during the summer.

Former Kansas men’s basketball standout Christian Braun entered the NBA as a first-round pick in 2022, won a national championship with the Nuggets as a rookie and upped his productivity in an even more productive sophomore season.

Now, his older brother Parker Braun, who spent six seasons at the collegiate level across Missouri, Santa Clara and then KU, will join Denver for the Summer League, the team announced Sunday.

The Nuggets do not play in the earlier California or Salt Lake City summer competitions, but will play their first preseason game in the Las Vegas Summer League against the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday. The game is at 9 p.m. Central Time and will be televised on NBA TV. Denver will then play at least four additional games by the end of the competition.

A 6-foot-10, 235-pound forward, Braun played a small role as Hunter Dickinson’s backup at the center position during Braun’s sixth-year senior season at KU, appearing in all 34 games for an average of 7.4 minutes with 2.2 points and 1.6 rebounds per game.

Many of Braun’s most memorable moments occurred when he finished off alley-oops from longtime friend and point guard Dajuan Harris Jr.; he also had double-digit scoring performances in the Jayhawks’ first two games of the season and later hit a key 3-pointer, just his third overall on the year, to help KU fend off Houston at Allen Fieldhouse on Feb. 3. He was slowed somewhat near the end of the year by an ankle injury suffered at Baylor on March 2.

Braun, a Burlington native, had his best season in 2022-23, when he averaged 7.7 points and 5.8 rebounds in his second year as a starter for Santa Clara. Having faced Gonzaga repeatedly as a league foe in the West Coast Conference and failed to come away with a win, Braun was again thwarted when the Jayhawks lost to the Bulldogs in the NCAA Tournament in what turned out to be the final game of his collegiate career.

Now, he will have a chance to start his professional career strong by taking on strong competition in the NBA’s annual preseason extravaganza.

He is one of six players who finished their college careers as Jayhawks announced as taking part in the event thus far, as of Monday afternoon. Six teams have yet to announce their Summer League rosters (including the New York Knicks, who drafted Kevin McCullar Jr.).

Marcus Garrett is currently with the Charlotte Hornets in the California Classic Summer League, after spending 2023-24 with their NBA G League affiliate, the Greensboro Swarm. Ochai Agbaji and Gradey Dick will both take part for the Toronto Raptors, Jalen Wilson will be back in Las Vegas with the Brooklyn Nets and newly drafted Johnny Furphy will be on the Indiana Pacers’ roster.

Christian Braun did not play in the Summer League last year after carving out a role as a rookie. This year, entering his third season, he is again not on the Summer League squad, and may even be able to eke out a starting spot during the regular season now that the Nuggets no longer have Kentavious Caldwell-Pope.