Kings Las Vegas summer league schedule
MON, 7/12 Pistons 3 pm
TUE, 7/13 Lakers 5:30pm
WED, 7/14 Wolves 7 pm
FRI, 7/16. * Raptors 3 pm
SAT, 7/17 Bulls 5:30pm
SUN, 7/18 *Mavs 5 pm
Most games for the NBA summer league are played in the Cox Pavilion, a 2,000 seat high school style practice court attached to the Thomas & Mack arena in Las Vegas. About 1-2 games a day are played in Thomas & Mack, a 15,000 seat arena home to UNLV basketball. The Kings games in T & M are marked by an *.
Games are played from Friday, 9 July through Sunday, 18 July with about 6 games a day amongst 22 NBA teams sending squads of rookies and FA 's to summer league. Tickets are $25 per day for all games that day (seniors and kids under 12 are $15/day). Seating is first-come-first-served anywhere except is those areas roped off for team reps. (coaches, GM's, scouts, etc).
This will be my 4th year attending the Vegas Summer League, twice with a press pass to provide a first hand view and interviews of the Kings squad. Some tidbits:
- attending the first day or first game for a team is more comical and amusing than it is a view of basketball skills as all FA's and draftees are so excited and over wound ( think 6 can Red Bull high!!!) that they seem out of control much of the time
- by game 3 a team effort starts to emerge and the ball games improve dramatically
- if your into NBA ball, summer league is a people watching gold mine: virtually every head coach (BTW all summer league games are coached by an assistant coach with rare exception), hall of fame players, owners, headlining celebs, even the top of the refereing corps
- summer league referees are mostly non-NBA refs who have been invited to "try out" to become an NBA ref. They add 1-2 refs a year to a permeant roster of about 70-75 refs.
- all games are played to NBA rules except there are four 10-min quarters and 10 fouls allowed before disqualification.
- for autograph seekers, one or two players from each game are put at an autograph signing table after each game
See ya there KF !!