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NBA Summer League Draws $600,000 Sponsorship From Las Vegas Events, LVCVA’s Events Arm; Wembanyama’s Pro Debut Helps Draw 17,500 Sellout To Thomas & Mack Center Friday

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT By Alan Snel, LVSportsBiz.com Publisher-Writer Las Vegas Events — the LVCVA’s nonprofit events arm — has sponsored the

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com That ol’ warhorse of an arena in Las Vegas, the Thomas & Mack Center, is

By Alan Snel of LVSportsBiz.com After a year wiped out because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the NBA Summer

NBA Summer League executive director Warren LeGarie (right) after the summer league title game Monday night at Thomas & Mack Center.

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com It began with Zion-mania filling Thomas & Mack Center July 5 when an earthquake put

Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks during the NBA Summer League in Las Vegas on Saturday, July 6, 2019. Richard Brian

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com There was a time when the NBA Summer League was known as the Las Vegas

NBA Summer League is here in Las Vegas July 5-15 for 83 games.

By Alan Snel LVSportsBiz.com Adam Silver is no stranger to Las Vegas. The NBA commissioner comes to the big

It was a first -- producing a vertical feed of a basketball game for cell phones.

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Photos by DANIEL CLARK Inside an NBA production trailer outside Thomas & Mack Center, about

Larry Coon of the Sports Business Classroom meets with students and alums of the program during the NBA Summer League Sunday.

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com Ahmad Eletreby has owned Papa John’s Pizza shops and works as a computer contractor, but

Carnell "Golden Pipes" Johnson in action singing the anthem at the NBA Summer League at Thomas & Mack Center Friday.

By ALAN SNEL LVSportsBiz.com NBA Summer League organizer and agent Warren LeGarie thanked Carnell Johnson for performing the national

Credit: Sam Morris/ Las Vegas News Bureau

By ALAN SNEL The 11-day NBA Summer League with 24 teams ended Monday with a Los Angeles Lakers celebration for