If you don’t know who Vander Blue is, you might find out very soon.After winning the 2016-2017 MVP award in the G-League, the shooting guard averaged 15.0 points, 3.8 rebounds and 3.0 assists in 27.4 minutes per game during the NBA Summer League for the Los Angeles Lakers. On his 25th birthday, he helped lead the Lakers to the Summer League championship.As a result, the Lakers and Blue agreed to a partially-guaranteed deal as the team’s 15th player.Despite the fact that he will have to battle Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, Jordan Clarkson and Josh Hart for minutes at his position, Blue is putting in the work to be the best version of himself that he can be.Check out how he celebrated his new contract:

Spending time in sunny Miami, Blue showed off his incredible hops by nearly jumping entirely up and out of the pool he was training in. Judging that it’s the beginning of three-a-day workouts, leaping high in the air will feel much easier on the court.

"I'm going to let my work speak for itself,” Blue said after winning the Summer League title via Harrison Faigen of Silver Screen & Roll. “I pray to God [my opportunity is] here with the Lakers, but we'll see what happens in the next couple of days. I tried to do a little bit of everything. Rebound, score, assist. Try to make the right play for my team. I think they got a good chance to see me run the team and show my leadership,” Blue said.

He received his wish, and given the footage above, he's putting the necessary work in to prepare himself to perform (if given the opportunity). 

“I know coming up in the D-League, it might seem like I was a selfish player or just all about myself because of the amount of points I was scoring at the rate I was scoring them, but my whole life I've been about winning,” Blue noted. “I want to play with winners. There's no better feeling than that. I think I got to show everybody, not just Magic and [Lakers general manager Rob] Pelinka, I got to show everybody that I'm a team guy and at the end of the day I'm just a winner.”

If he holds on to the 15th and final roster spot, he will have the chance to impress in the second NBA stint of his career with the team.