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The lawmakers urged Silver to consider Las Vegas’ 20-year partnership with the NBA through hosting the Summer League and NBA Cup championships. “As you consider the future of the NBA, we strongly urge you to build on the League’s local momentum by selecting Las Vegas as a site for a future league franchise,” the letter reads in part.
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“[The procedure] was successful. I’m not qualified to explain exactly what it was, but it was to make his plantar fasciitis better and find the best way for him to take the next step and get stronger,” Fernández said before his tanking Nets suffered a 121-92 blowout loss to the defending champion Thunder at Barclays Center. “So it went well, and he’ll be ready to go at some point in the offseason, which is great because then you have all this time to work, get better and go into summer league. “Yeah, [summer league is the goal]. But right now, what we’re doing is — what’s the next step? Right now he’s not on the court, so I don’t think we’ll have any timeline; but that’s the idea, yeah, at some point.” Egor Demin averaged 10.3 points, 3.3 assists and 3.2 rebounds in a solid rookie campaign, the first Net since 2019 picked for the Rising Stars at All-Star Weekend.
Within league circles, it has been seen as the expected outcome for several years, though it was far from a certainty because of some pushback from different owners over the economics for the reasons laid out above. However, when Silver said in December a decision was coming in 2026, the belief within the league was that expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas was close to inevitable. While next week's vote is not a binding resolution, something like that is more likely to come at the July board of governors meeting during the Las Vegas Summer League, sources told ESPN.
It will be shocking if expansion doesn't happen. Within league circles, it has been seen as the expected outcome for several years, though it was far from a certainty because of some pushback from different owners over the economics for the reasons laid out above. However, when Silver said in December a decision was coming in 2026, the belief within the league was that expansion to Seattle and Las Vegas was close to inevitable. While next week's vote is not a binding resolution, something like that is more likely to come at the July board of governors meeting during the Las Vegas Summer League, sources told ESPN.
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Players typically begin returning to normal walking and strength exercises after about three months. From there, basketball activity is slowly reintroduced. "Even when you repair ligaments — like he had on the other side — the tissue needs time to heal," Jung said. "The bone stress also needs time to heal, and then he has to rebuild his strength." Given this timeline, it's unlikely that Edey will participate in NBA Summer League or play in the 2026 FIBA World Cup for Team Canada.
Mark Medina: LeBron James argued that Jaylen Brown should be an MVP candidate. LeBron: "Our relationship has been pretty respectful, besides the s-- that he said about Bronny at Summer League. But other than that, other than that, we’ve been all right."
LeBron James makes a case for Jaylen Brown for MVP and says that his relationship with Brown “will be all right” after Brown went on social media to offer support for Bronny James after he had been caught on camera at a Summer League game questioning James’ son’s game. pic.twitter.com/tI7wy5wE6E
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Matt Bonner: So, I go to the mini camp. I'm at the summer league. I check into the first game and Kevin Garnett was sitting right courtside baseline underneath the hoop with like a bunch of his boys. And because there was only like 200 people in there, you could hear everything everyone saying. We were taking it out underneath out of bounds and he was like killing me. He was like you we talk about how redheads get made fun of. I mean, he's like, ‘This redheaded mofo,’ like ‘he can't play. You don't even have to guard his ass.’ He's just like killing me. And I'm like, ‘Dude, I'm like, come on.’ Like, I'm trying to make the team. I'm trying to make the team here. Everybody can hear it. People, there's like people in the stands laughing. I'm like, ‘Oh, this is so embarrassing.’ So I was not happy about that.
Ivica Zubac: It was the third year. I finished my first season strong, played pretty well. Then Magic Johnson came to the team. Before Summer League, they told me I had to be Summer League MVP. If not, they’d be disappointed. I wasn’t MVP. Q. You weren’t? Zubac: No. We won the Summer League. I played well, but not MVP. That team was loaded. The best team in Summer League history. Me, Brandon Ingram, Lonzo Ball, Josh Hart, Kyle Kuzma, Alex Caruso, Thomas Bryant was coming off the bench. Seven or eight legit NBA guys. How can you be MVP on that team? Sometimes you can’t even get the ball. We won it all. Summer League ends. The season starts soon. Two weeks before the season, they sign Andrew Bogut. Magic Johnson calls me in. Says I didn’t improve all summer. “You didn’t improve. You won’t play.” Camp hadn’t even started. And he’s telling me I won’t play. I’m thinking, I stayed all summer, didn’t play for the national team. All summer in L.A. with my trainers. Strength coach, skill coach, did everything they wanted. What else could I do? If I didn’t improve, that’s on you. Second season, I barely played at all. Third season starts, they sign JaVale McGee. He’s the starter, no other real center. Michael Beasley plays backup center.
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Pistons president of basketball operations Trajan Langdon confirmed during an early press conference Friday that they are working to sign Daniss Jenkins to a standard contract ahead of their road game against the Charlotte Hornets on Monday – securing his future with the Pistons for the rest of the season. “We’re having conversations with his agent about what that looks like going forward and we’ll convert him over the weekend, and he’ll be a roster player in our game in Charlotte, at least that’s the goal, the hope for the weekend,” Langdon said. “Kudos to him. He’s worked his butt off. All last season playing a ton of games for the Motor City [Cruise], we saw his improvement during the year and I think everybody saw how he played in the summer league in Vegas and he just continued to improve, working not only with his own trainers but with staff and with his teammates through the summer.
Bronny James was back in Cleveland, where his father played his first seven NBA seasons and then returned for four more years after a four-year stint with the Miami Heat. Entering the game, there would be plenty of cameras on father and son, so it was smart marketing to break out this particular shoe on Wednesday. There’s also a lot of interest and money to be made with the Bronny brand. Bronny’s NBA Summer League jersey sold at auction for $38,400 in 2024. And Nike sold Bronny’s jersey with his name during his lone college season at USC, making him the first men’s basketball player to have his jersey for sale as part of the NIL era.
7-foot center James Nnaji has committed to Baylor and will play the second half of the season with the Bears, a source told On3. He’s been granted four years of eligibility by the NCAA. The 21-year-old Nigerian big man was selected 31st overall in the 2023 NBA Draft by the Detroit Pistons, but his rights were moved to Charlotte. Despite being drafted, he never signed a standard NBA contract. In 2024, his rights were moved once again, this time to the New York Knicks, as part of the three-team Karl-Anthony Towns trade. After not appearing in an NBA regular-season game, Nnaiji continued his professional career overseas, most recently playing for FC Barcelona in the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague before mutually parting ways with the team in August. Earlier this year, Nnaji appeared in NBA Summer League with the Knicks, averaging 3.2 points and 3.6 rebounds across five games.
The NBA and Las Vegas have been linked for many years. A summer league has been held in the city annually since 2004, and Team USA basketball also trains in Las Vegas — though sources close to the program said it could look for a new location to train for 2027 FIBA World Cup and and 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. While a city might want to propose hosting the NBA Cup final, the league could stick with Las Vegas and allow the event to grow as it did with Las Vegas Summer League, which has become a signature event for the league that many veterans make a point to attend.