First Weekend Of NBA Summer League Features Strong Attendance Of 17,022 Saturday and 14,227 Sunday

July 11, 2022July 11, 2022 Alan Snel

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Sunday’s attendance at the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas was 14,227, a respectable number as a sellout for a day in 17,500.

Saturday’s attendance on Day 3 hit 17,022, Friday was 14,139 and Thursday began with 9,641.

Event organizers are hopeful of reaching pre-pandemic attendance numbers for games at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion, but are not quite there yet.

Here are today’s games for Summer League Day 5 :

Besides staging 75 exhibition NBA games to showcase up-and-coming players, the summer league hosts a sports-business program for people interested in learning about the biz of the NBA like managing salary caps.

This year’s summer league does not have MGM Resorts as its title sponsor. The new sponsor is NBA 2K23.

In Monday summer league news, Richard Jefferson is going be an official reffing the second quarter of tonight’s New York vs Portland game.

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Hirings and Firings:

Las Vegas Aces President Nikki Fargas said the Aces are not renewing the contract of General Manager Natalie Williams. The Aces hired Williams as the team’s general manager in April 2022.

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