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NBA Summer League Thursday Attendance Comes In At 8,279

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By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

Alex Rodriguez may have played more than 20 years in the Big Leagues and won three MVP awards in the American League. But at the NBA Summer League and the owners meeting in Las Vegas this week, Rodriguez was just a rookie among team owners.

As a minority team owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rodriguez chatted courtside with Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer, attended an owners meeting and took in a Timberwolves-Bucks game this week.

Thursday was one of the more quiet days at the July 7-17 NBA Summer League with attendance of 8,279, though crowds should get bigger for Saturday’s action.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver also used the NBA Summer League to provide an update on the league, mentioning that the NBA generated more than $10 billion in annual revenue.

Friday’s games:

 

 

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.

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