The NBA Summer League in Las Vegas set an attendance record in July. Photo credits: Sam Morris/Las Vegas News Bureau

Orlando Summer League Closes, Setting Up NBA Summer League Extravaganza In Las Vegas For 2018

By ALAN SNEL   Las Vegas, you want the NBA?   You got it.   All of it.   The Orlando Magic has shut down its eight-team summer league operations and reports say the NBA clubs that played in Orlando will join the rest of the NBA teams in Las Vegas in July for an all-NBA 30-team extravaganza.     Orlando Magic spokesman Joel Glass told LVSportsBiz.com today that the Las Vegas Summer League offered games with fan crowds and an atmosphere closer to the feel of an NBA game than the summer league games in Orlando where the games were closed to the public and had only a few hundred people in the gym.   Glass said the Magic will be joining the NBA Summer League, which set an attendance record at the 2017 event at Th
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Alan Snel

Alan Snel brings decades of sports-business reporting experience to LVSportsBiz.com. Snel covered the business side of sports for the South Florida (Fort Lauderdale) Sun-Sentinel, the Tampa Tribune and Las Vegas Review-Journal. As a city hall beat reporter, Snel also covered stadium deals in Denver and Seattle. In 2000, Snel launched a sport-business website for FoxSports.com called FoxSportsBiz.com. After reporting sports-business for the RJ, Snel wrote hard-hitting stories on the Raiders stadium for the Desert Companion magazine in Las Vegas and The Nevada Independent. Snel is also one of the top bicycle advocates in the country.