Get to know the Wolves 2017 summer league team

The NBA's Summer League in Las Vegas begins Friday. Here's a quick breakdown of the Minnesota Timberwolves' roster (in alphabetical order):

Beachem spent four seasons at Notre Dame, finishing his Fighting Irish career as the sixth-most experienced player in program history at 132 career games played. An All-ACC Honorable Mention as a senior, Beachem averaged 14.5 points per game and shot 39.2 percent from 3-point range.

After entering the draft following his junior season despite averaging just 9.7 points in 18.8 minutes, Burton returned to Iowa State for his senior year in 2016-17 and averaged 15.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 1.7 steals and 1.4 blocks per game, earning him a second-team All-Big 12 nod. Burton turns 26 on July 26. He began his collegiate career at Marquette in 2013-14 before transferring after the first semester of the 2014-15 season.

Cooke transferred to Dayton after averaging 14.3 points per game as a sophomore at James Madison, upping his scoring output in each of his two seasons with the Flyers. He averaged 15.8 points per game as a senior and shot 45.5 percent from the field.

Costello makes his third appearance in the summer league after averaging five points per game for the Orlando Magic in the Orlando Pro Summer League earlier this week. The former Michigan State star was waived by the Atlanta Hawks last season following his first summer campaign, before signing briefly with the Memphis Grizzlies and ultimately joining the G-League's Iowa Energy. Michigan State's all-time leader in blocks, Costello averaged 10.7 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game as a senior.

The former Kansas star spent last season with Greensboro in the D League and averaged 9.8 points and 4.7 rebounds in 22.4 minutes. Ellis averaged 16.9 points on 53.1 percent shooting as a senior in 2015-16. He played for Dallas in last year's summer league (5.0 PPG) and for Charlotte in training camp and one game in the preseason.

Gibbs was the first player at Davidson to finish with 2,000 points, 400 rebounds and 400 assists, A three-time All-Atlantic 10 selection, Gibbs averaged 22.1, 4.0 rebounds and 4.1 assists points as a senior and made 39.2 percent of his 3-point attempts. Gibbs averaged 16.2 points as a sophomore and 23.4 points as a junior.

In the storied history of Duke, no one has played more games than Jefferson's 150, which is also tied for the seventh most games played in NCAA history. He became the 11th Blue Devil to accumulate 1,000 points and 900 rebounds in his career. Jefferson was averaging 11.4 points and 10.3 rebounds after nine games as a senior in 2015-16 when he fractured a foot and had to miss the rest of the season. Given a fifth year, Jefferson averaged 10.2 points, 8.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks last season.

Kingsley was born in Nigeria, moving to Mississippi as a high school sophomore before attending the University of Arkansas. A Second Team All-SEC selection as a senior, Kingsley started all 36 games for the Razorbacks, averaging 12 points and 7.7 rebounds per game. Kingsley scored a season-high 24 points in Arkansas' win over LSU in January, and had 23 points in the Razorbacks' NCAA tournament win over Seton Hall.

Best known for tying the 2016 NCAA championship game with an incredible off-balance 3-pointer, Paige led North Carolina to the title game as a senior. The Brooklyn Nets selected Paige with the 55th pick in the 2016 draft, but immediately traded him to the Utah Jazz, who waived him a few months later. Paige averaged 8.3 points per game for the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Orlando Pro Summer League earlier this week.

A former D-Leaguer, Putney has spent the last several seasons abroad, playing in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Malaysia, Venezuela and Italy in between a pair of stints with the G-League's Rio Grande Valley Vipers. He averaged 10.7 points per game in Italy's Serie. A last season. Putney spent four season at UMass, averaging 8.8 points, 5.4 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 blocks per game as a senior in 2014.

After playing four years at Alabama, Randolph played for Maine in the D League in 2015-16 (14.8 PPG, 4.9 RPB) before moving overseas to play for Italy's Sidigas Avellino, where he averaged 10.6 points per game. Randolph has played in summer leagues the past two years with Oklahoma City, Utah, Memphis and Philadelphia and also appeared for Boston in the 2015-16 preseason.

A 27-year-old shooting guard who went undrafted back in 2012, Williams spent last season with the G-League's Texas Legends after spending time overseas in Cyprus, Italy and France. Williams averaged 12.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 1.8 assists, and 1.0 steals per game for the Legends last season after appearing on the Wolves' summer-league roster last year.