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NBA Summer League Breaks Attendance Record In Vegas, Drawing 139,972 For 12 Days

July 17, 2018July 17, 2018 Alan Snel

By ALAN SNEL

LVSportsBiz.com

The NBA Summer League broke its attendance record with Monday’s two semi-final games and then padded it by another 8,679 fans Tuesday night when the Portland Trail Blazers claimed the summer league crown with a 91-73 win over division rival Los Angeles Kings.

Portland broke out to a 21-10 lead in the first period Tuesday night and reversed last year’s title game outcome, when the Lakers defeated the Blazers.

Here’s a 2018 day-by-day rundown of the daily attendance at Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion.

This year’s summer league attendance after 11 days at the UNLV campus broke the attendance mark of the 2017 11-day summer league mark of 127,843, which included a record 10,304 for the summer league title game when the Los Angeles Lakers won the 2017 summer league crown.

Here was last year’s attendance numbers.

The NBA Summer League is one day longer in 2018 as all 30 NBA teams participated in an 82-game schedule at Thomas & Mack Center and the adjoining Cox Pavilion on the UNLV campus.

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Cox Pavilion housed about 2,500 fans for summer league games there. By Tuesday, the court had been removed and the bleachers folded up.

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