In all, 23 NBA teams, plus an NBA Development League team, will play 67 games in 11 days at Thomas & Mack and Cox Pavilion beginning Friday. It’s $28 at the door per person for a day’s worth of NBA summer games.
NBA Summer League
There will be plenty of interesting storylines when the NBA Summer League begins Friday. No. 1 overall pick Karl-Anthony Towns of the Timberwolves and No. 2 selection D’Angelo Russell of the Lakers will meet at 5:30 p.m. at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Becky Hammon will make some NBA history in Las Vegas where she’ll be the first female head coach in summer league history.
The Timberwolves and Lakers highlight the first-day schedule of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, which was released Tuesday. The games run from July 10 to July 20 at Cox Pavilion and the Thomas & Mack Center.
Tenacious point guard is yet another proud Vegas Summer League graduate; also played at Orleans Arena for Saint Mary’s.
All four of this year’s conference finalists — Cleveland, Atlanta, Golden State and Houston — will field teams in Las Vegas and will be joined by 10 other teams which made the playoffs this year. Returning to the summer league will be the Boston Celtics and the Brooklyn Nets.
With no idea where he will be playing in the NBA next season, Kevin Love is the latest All-Star to pull out of Team USA, which begins its training camp in Las Vegas next week to prepare for the FIBA World Cup in Spain.
It almost wasn’t fair. The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas had for nine previous years grown in a positive direction. More teams. More fans. More interest.
Led by MVP guard Ray McCallum’s 29 points, Sacramento fought off fatigue and Houston, winning 77-68 and capturing the NBA Summer League championship.
The Sacramento Kings arrived in Las Vegas on July 5 to prepare for the NBA Summer League.
Tony Snell could have stayed in college. But that wouldn’t have necessarily made him any smarter.
It’s early Friday morning at the Doolittle Community Center, and a very tall man is leading 145 kids through calisthenics on one of the center’s two basketball courts.
And they say no one cares about winning in the NBA Summer League.
It was midway through the third quarter, and Jordan Clarkson had a clear path to the basket for what was going to be an easy layup.
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