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The NBA Summer League is back, after last year’s battle over a new collective bargaining agreement resulted in the lockout of players and forced the cancellation of the annual event on the UNLV campus.
Las Vegas officially has become the center of the universe, at least for basketball.
An unhappy Drew Gordon arrived in Las Vegas looking to prove a point, and New Mexico’s senior forward piled up enough points and rebounds to accomplish his goal.
Senior forward Drew Gordon had 19 points and 13 rebounds to lift second-seeded New Mexico to a 72-67 victory over UNLV in a Mountain West Conference tournament semifinal at the Thomas & Mack Center. The third-seeded Rebels will now wait until 3 p.m. Sunday to learn their postseason fate when the NCAA Tournament field is announced.
Mountain West Conference player of the year Jamaal Franklin scored 19 points and added six rebounds to help San Diego State advance to the championship game of the conference tournament with a 79-69 win over Colorado State in the first semifinal Friday evening.