Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets during day six of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

NBA Summer League Day 8: Attendance Record In Sight

By Alan Snel

LVSportsBiz.com

 

It’s Day 8 at the NBA Summer League and through the first seven days the pro basketball game spree in Las Vegas has drawn an average of 14,074 fans a day based on released attendance numbers.

Seven-foot, seven-inch Tacko Fall of Celtics signs an autograph this week.

 

Let’s take a look at the daily announced attendance.

This year’s Summer League started with two sellouts. Last year’s Summer League also started strong in attendance and finished at 139,972. Here’s a look at the 2018 attendance numbers:

If the Summer League averages 10,363 in attendance a day these four final days it will set an attendance record.

Orlando Magic and Brooklyn Nets during day six of the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas on Wednesday, July 10, 2019.

 

Thomas & Mack Center’s other big multi-day event — the National Finals Rodeo — sells out every day over 10 days in mid-December and drew 169,171 people in 2018.

 

The Lakers played Friday and brought a loud, feisty crowd to Thomas & Mack. The Lakers defeated the Warriors, 88-87, when a Warriors player missed a shot before the buzzer at the end of the game.

 

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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.