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.