NBA commissioner Adam Silver said Las Vegas is the best place for the NBA Summer League. Attendance in 2015 was a record 99,437, an average of 9,040 per session.
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Now that free-agency fireworks have hit a crescendo, the NBA brings its 10-day road show to Las Vegas this week.
Former UNLV standouts Stephen Zimmerman Jr. and Patrick McCaw could go late in the first round of the NBA Draft or drop into the second round, depending on which mock draft you believe.
The NBA Summer League will be played at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion. The July 8 to 18 event will include rookies and second-year players.
The NBA will return to Las Vegas in July, with summer league action taking place over a span of 10 days, the league announced on the event’s Twitter page.
Five members of the NBA champion Golden State Warriors have been named among the list of 30 finalists announced Monday for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team.
What a wonderful 11 days this had been for Becky Hammon. For Jonathan Simmons and Treveon Graham, it may have been even better.
When I heard there was going to be an NBA Summer League Wall of Fame marking the circuit’s 10-year anniversary in Las Vegas, my first thought was cool.
Devin Booker appears to be getting the hang of life in the NBA. At least the summer portion of it. The 6-foot-6-inch guard from Kentucky, taken by the Phoenix Suns with the No. 13 overall pick last month, put the team on his back Sunday in the semifinals of the NBA Summer League.
In Sunday‘s NBA Summer League semifinals, No. 7 San Antonio faces No. 14 Atlanta at 3 p.m. and No. 8 Phoenix faces No. 4 New Orleans at 5 p.m.
A year ago, as a rookie, Kyle Anderson was trying to feel his way around the NBA.
LeBron James was in Las Vegas for the NBA Players Association meetings and showed up Friday at Cox Pavilion to watch the Cavaliers‘ game against Minnesota.
It would be easy to dismiss Seth Curry as a summer league wonder, someone who lights it up against competition that isn‘t the caliber of what his brother Steph goes against every night.
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.
