A few days ago, I wrote about a couple of former Michigan State teammates reuniting for the NBA Summer League as coaches of the Brooklyn Nets.
But Joey Hauser and Foster Loyer aren’t the only former Spartan teammates that will be back together for the Summer League. In fact, Jase Richardson is welcoming a teammate of his from his one season in East Lansing to the Orlando Magic Summer League roster.
Richardson was obviously going to be on it as a second-year player and former first-round pick out of Michigan State last year but the reunion he’s set to have is a bit surprising.
One of the most polarizing Spartans from the past few years will be playing for the Magic alongside Richardson. Tre Holloman was signed by the Magic not long after the 2026 NBA Draft to join their Summer League roster and Michigan State fans are going to get major flashbacks seeing him and Richardson share the same backcourt.
We’ll see if they have the same success with Orlando’s Summer League team that they had at Michigan State.
Tre Holloman, Jase Richardson work well together
In their one season together, Richardson and Holloman won a Big Ten title and they both became fan favorites in East Lansing.
They thrived in the backcourt together and they were both major reasons why Michigan State was so good during the 2024-25 season, winning the conference by three games and making the Elite Eight. They did, however, run into a buzzsaw that was Auburn, leading to a tearful locker room with Holloman apologizing for letting his teammates down.
Unfortunately, that’s the only time that they got together as they both left following the season. That’ll change over the next couple of weeks.
Richardson played well enough to go from a top-50 four-star recruit to a first-round NBA draft pick while Holloman had a breakout season, averaging 9.1 points and 3.7 assists in just over 23 minutes per game. He was looking like a future Michigan State legend, especially after the midcourt incident against Michigan on Senior Day and the half-court buzzer-beater against Maryland.
Everyone loved Holloman until he decided to do the unthinkable.
Tre Holloman decided to bet on himself
Holloman wasted little time after the 2024-25 season to enter the transfer portal which shocked everyone and he was promised a larger role at NC State under Will Wade.
That didn’t quite happen.
While his minutes increase (by two per game), his points per game remained about the same (9.2 compared to 9.1 as a junior at MSU) and his role was pretty much the exact same. He would have assumed a larger role as a senior at Michigan State, especially with Richardson and Jaden Akins leaving for the NBA. We’ll never know how that would have played out, but I have a gut feeling that it would have benefitted both sides.
Moral of the story? Don’t ever assume you know better than Tom Izzo. Unfortunately Holloman found that out the hard way.
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