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NBA Summer League Wraps Up Action In Las Vegas Sunday As Portland Defeats Knicks To Win Summer Title; Attendance Today 9,713

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com

The curtain dropped on the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas Sunday.

While the Summer League’s attendance did not reach pre-COVID levels, there were still decent crowds like the 17,022 that showed up at Thomas & Mack Center/Cox Pavilion July 9. (Sellout is 17,500.) Professional basketball’s annual summer gathering in Las Vegas brought together Commissioner Adam Silver, NBA owners, hoops celebrities, NBA tech partners, industry vendors and, of course, the up-and-coming players from all 30 NBA teams trying to make their mark on their clubs during the 11 days in Las Vegas.

Here was the daily attendance:

July 7: 9,641

July 8: 14,139

July 9: 17,022

July 10: 14,227

July 11: 11,003

July 12: 11,485

July 13: 9,037

July 14: 8,279

July 15: 12,749

July 16: 11,320

July 17: 9,713

Heading into Sunday, NBA Summer League attendance was 118,902.  Sunday’s attendance was 9,713 for an 11-day total of 128,615. Silver mentioned last week that attendance was going to be about 135,000, so he was not too far off.

For the record, the Portland Trail Blazers defeated the New York Knicks to win the Summer League title, 85-77.

The Portland players received Summer League championship rings.

In winning a summer league crown, a team can potentially carry momentum into the next season. The 30 NBA teams get a chance to give their young players playing time to see their potential and roles for the following season as well.

There’s been fan talk of the idea of the WNBA holding its annual All-Star Game during the first weekend of NBA Summer League for marketing synergy.

 

Sunday’s six games completed the 75-game schedule in Las Vegas.

There’s always talk of the NBA having a team in this market. The Los Angeles-based Oak View Group, an arena development company, is looking at building an NBA-ready arena at Las Vegas Boulevard and Blue Diamond Road south of the Strip.


 

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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