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Basketball
Nearly a decade ago, the National Basketball League Summer League looked like a bunch of pick-up hoops games where green NBA rookies and roster-spot-craving veterans didn’t even wear matching team uniforms.
Pierre Jackson had never played a game at the Thomas & Mack Center until Sunday. After having a tough time in his NBA Summer League debut for New Orleans, the former Baylor point guard from Las Vegas probably wished he were playing somewhere else in town.
Having grown up in Las Vegas, Anthony Marshall knows a little something about long shots. He also knows that once in a while, they come in.
Bill Bayno has found a new home. And it’s north of the border. The former UNLV coach has left Rick Adelman’s staff with the Minnesota Timberwolves to join coach Dwane Casey as an assistant with the Toronto Raptors.
It’s not the NBA that he’ll see come fall, but Shabazz Muhammad got a taste of life as a professional athlete Saturday.
Dwight Howard says he’s looking forward to a “fresh start” with the Rockets.
Elijah Johnson would love to be Chris Paul’s backup at point guard. But he’s not the only player auditioning for the job.
It was late in the third quarter, and as he dribbled upcourt, Matt Dellavedova saw a Cleveland Cavaliers teammate headed to the basket who appeared to be open.
The middle-aged surfer dude with a purple dress shirt hanging over his jeans strolled around the NBA Summer League court at noon Friday, schmoozing with everyone from New York Knicks broadcaster Mike Breen to assistant general managers such as Wes Wilcox of the Atlanta Hawks.
There’s a belief among some basketball people that what happens in the NBA Summer League doesn’t matter.
For those headed to Cox Pavilion on Friday for the first day of the NBA Summer League, it will be business as usual.
Shortly after hyperactive Albert Hall arrived at the Thomas & Mack Center and began checking poster placements, vendor spots and the new wood basketball floor, he gave arena director Mike Newcomb a bear hug.
Dwight Howard, the NBA’s most dominant and indecisive big man, who tired of Orlando and never loved Los Angeles, has made up his mind.
New Orleans, Portland and Sacramento have agreed to a three-team trade sending guard Tyreke Evans to the Pelicans, center Robin Lopez to the Trail Blazers and guard Greivis Vasquez to the Kings, people familiar with the deal said.
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