The rookie point guard mattered a ton, and the fact the Lakers won the entire thing and drew the number of fans they did was equally significant.
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Nowhere was versatility more evident than the NBA Summer League, where a harvest of young talent spent the past 10 days inside Cox Pavilion and the Thomas & Mack Center trying to prove themselves.
The Warriors believe former UNLV player Patrick McCaw can be one of those two-way players teams continuously pursue, but his place on the league’s best team was born from this reality: He can really defend.
There never again will be an NBA rivalry like the Lakers and Celtics of the 1980s, a truth that has been dead and buried for years now.
The only thing that matters in this entire vessel of lunacy began with the Lakers falling to the Clippers 96-93 in overtime and Ball making his pro debut.
It might be a stretch to believe Golden State’s rise to NBA greatness was a carryover from the Summer League Warriors’ success, but that’s what happened.