The NBA Summer League provided an opportunity to show what the Sphere can do. Now, executives are excited to see what artists can come up with next.
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The Sphere debuted a variety of displays on its Exosphere on the Fourth of July, and continues to show off new designs daily.
In a sense, Adam Silver sees summer league as Las Vegas’ unofficial NBA team and he still claims that the NBA was first professional sport in Las Vegas, not the NHL or NFL.
NBA fans will get to follow the actions of a single player in livestreams on Twitter in the second half of 20 games, starting with the NBA All-Star Game on Feb. 17.
While LA used to be the city that teams would threaten to make their new home, Southern Nevada now has become leverage city.
Amid the hoopla of NBA celebrities strolling the Thomas & Mack Center concourse and big-name corporate sponsors such as adidas is a little-known family-owned Michigan company that adds the literal foundation to the NBA Summer League.
In all, 23 NBA teams, plus an NBA Development League team, will play 67 games in 11 days at Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion beginning Friday. It’s $28 at the door per person for a day’s worth of NBA summer games.
It’s not a mini-blimp, and don’t call it a drone either. Micah Warren has poured $600,000 into his company, Carangi Airships Inc., to produce “airships,” including one debuting this week at the Thomas & Mack Center during Vegas Summer League.
Engaging players is just one way that global sports apparel and sneaker manufacturer adidas activates its official NBA apparel and outfitter sponsorship deal during the Vegas Summer league.
You see them all around the Vegas Summer League — earnest-looking, college-age young adults in black shorts and white shirts posting signs at Thomas and Mack Center. They’re the 50 interns performing the tasks to keep the 11-day summer league humming at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas’ Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion.