In the 48-year history of the Naismith Award, no recipient was selected outside the first round in the NBA draft until Sacramento’s Frank Mason III, who is playing in the summer league in Las Vegas.
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Wednesday’s updates from NBA Summer League at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion.
The sixth day of the 2017 NBA Summer League is the first day of tournament play and will feature eight games in total.
The NBA Summer League concluded its fifth day on the UNLV campus with six games. Tournament play begins Wednesday at 1 p.m.
In the first half of the Los Angeles Lakers’ 78-65 win over the Golden State Warriors in the NBA Summer League, D’Angelo Russell scored 13 points in the final four minutes. In the second half, he deferred and got his teammates involved.
NBA commissioner Adam Silver said the league is not ready to expand and is content having Las Vegas serve as the home to the NBA Summer League and USA Basketball.
Play is underway at the Cox Pavilion and Thomas & Mack Center for Day 5 at the NBA Summer League.
The fifth day of the 2016 NBA Summer League will be the last one before teams are eliminated in the playoffs. Six games will take place — three in the Thomas & Mack Center and three in the Cox Pavilion.
If you didn’t catch any of the NBA Summer League action last weekend, there’s still plenty of time before it leaves Las Vegas.
The new Chicago Bulls head coach watched the final minutes tick down and the Bulls were comfortably ahead of the Minnesota Timberwolves and the team was off to a good start in the NBA Summer League.