Zhaire Smith was selected No. 16 overall in the NBA Draft after being an unranked kid from Dallas-Forth Worth who played only one season at Texas Tech.
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Rashad Vaughn, now 21 and formerly of Findlay Prep and UNLV, is in Las Vegas, again, with the Miami Heat and its summer league team, trying to score another guaranteed contract and solidify his future.
Premier Vegas Sports host Bryan Salmond, Review-Journal sports reporters Gilbert Manzano, Justin Emerson, Sam Gordon and Mark Anderson go over the action on the third day of Summer League.
Deandre Ayton, the potential No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, scored a career-high 32 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in the Wildcats’ 78-67 overtime victory over UCLA before an announced crowd of 16,596 at T-Mobile Arena.
UNLV upset No. 23 UNR 86-78 on Wednesday, and the Rebels need to build on that victory. They welcome Wyoming to the Thomas & Mack Center at 5 p.m. Saturday.
Donovan Joyner is averaging 25.6 points, 6.4 rebounds, 3.7 assists and 2.6 steals for the Wildcats (10-4), who are in the midst of their best season during his three-year varsity tenure.
A closer look at the players on the 2017-18 UNLV men’s basketball team.
The third day of the 2017 NBA Summer League will feature eight games in total — four in the Thomas & Mack Center and four in the adjacent Cox Pavilion.
Adam Hill, Ed Graney and Mark Anderson from the Las Vegas Review-Journal analyze the UNLV men’s basketball team’s loss and what the team can do in the offseason to improve.
Former Knicks star Charles Oakley was forcefully removed from his seats at Madison Square Garden and arrested after an altercation near team owner James Dolan.