The Professional Bull Riders will bring 48 of its top athletes to the South Point every Friday and Saturday through June 28.
Sam Gordon
Reporter: UNLV
Email: sgordon@reviewjournal.com
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Sam Gordon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is back for his second stint with the Review-Journal. He’s covered the NFL, NBA, the Big Ten, the Mountain West and prep sports for various publications during his professional tenure. Gordon, a University of Minnesota graduate, is a basketball junkie who coached high school basketball for three seasons.
Michael Jordan is no longer a nemesis for UNLV gradaute Matt Maxson and his boyhood rooting interests.
The Aces and guard Kelsey Plum agreed to a two-year contract extension worth $355,250, according to High Post Hoops. She has career averages of 8.9 points and 3.5 assists.
Tanisha Wright, who played 14 years in the WNBA, completes the team’s coaching staff for the season alongside head coach Bill Laimbeer and assistant Vickie Johnson.
NBA comissioner Adam Silver said on a conference call that Las Vegas could host the league’s Western Conference playoffs, according to a report from Yahoo! Sports.
Aces center JiSu Park will sit out the 2020 WNBA season to train this summer in South Korea. The 21-year-old played sparingly in 2019, averaging 6.5 minutes in 25 games.
The Vegas Summer League has transformed from a six-team enterprise into a full-on basketball convention, complete with all 30 NBA teams and two packed arenas each day.
Former Mayor Oscar Goodman convinced the NBA to bring the All-Star Game to Las Vegas, but when the weekend was over, more than 400 people reportedly had been arrested.
With rioting sparked by the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers accused of brutally beating Rodney King, the Lakers and Portland played at the Thomas & Mack Center.
Top Rank chairman Bob Arum said he’s optimistic his company can begin staging cards by June and that they could be held without spectators at a hotel-casino.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar used his signature sky hook against the Utah Jazz on April 5, 1984, at the Thomas & Mack Center to supplant Wilt Chamberlain as the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
The Review-Journal in a five-part series is detailing the league’s history in Las Vegas, beginning with the Utah Jazz’s 11-game residency during the 1983-84 season.
Trinity International senior Daishen Nix will bypass college and sign with the NBA’s G League. The five-star point guard signed a national letter of intent with UCLA in the fall.
Aces coach and former Detroit Pistons big man Bill Laimbeer does not regret walking off the court with 7.9 seconds remaining in Game 4 of the 1991 Eastern Conference Finals against the Chicago Bulls.
An abundance of Las Vegas Raiders gear is available via the NFL Shop’s online website. Fanatics, an online retailer that partners with the major sports leagues, is also selling Raiders merchandise.
