NBA Summer League

NBA Summer League
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 NBA Summer League
SportBasketball
First seasonOrlando: 2002 (defunct in 2018)
Las Vegas: 2004
Utah: 2015
Sacramento/San Francisco: 2018
No. of teamsUtah: 4
Sacramento/San Francisco: 4
Las Vegas: 30
CountryUnited States
Most recent
champion(s)		Las Vegas:
Miami Heat (1)
Most titlesLas Vegas:
Sacramento Kings
Portland Trail Blazers (2)
TV partner(s)NBA TV and ESPN

The NBA Summer League, also known as the Las Vegas Summer League, is an off-season basketball competition organized by the National Basketball Association (NBA). NBA teams come together to try out different summer rosters instead of their regular season lineups, including rookie, sophomore and G League affiliate players. The current NBA Summer League also features the California Classic and Salt Lake City Summer League in addition to the Las Vegas Summer League.

In previous years, the Utah Jazz Summer League also featured NBA teams, as did the Orlando Pro Summer League; those leagues are sometimes referred to as NBA Summer League when also mentioned with its host location.[1]

History

Summer leagues have existed for decades. Historically, there was not an organized structure, with leagues sometimes overlapping and not officially coordinated.[2] The Orlando Pro Summer League was held from 2002 to 2017, operating each year except in 2005 and 2011.[3] In 2004, the league held the Las Vegas Summer League for the first time; it is by far the largest league, with 32 teams participating as of 2019.[4] The Utah Jazz Summer League began play in 2015, replacing the Rocky Mountain Revue, an event held from 1984 to 2008 before going on a lengthy hiatus due to declining participation.

The leagues generally consist of a handful of games per team. Unlike regulation NBA games, which are 48 minutes long, games only last 40 minutes (same as in FIBA/WNBA), plus multiple 2-minute overtime periods (first overtime is played in its entirety; true sudden death thereafter).[5] Before the 2013 leagues, no official champions were named at any league, with the leagues focusing more on individual auditions and development. A champion is currently named for the Las Vegas league, although team performance is generally not emphasized.

Unsigned free agents are often signed to summer league deals, providing a chance to possibly be signed to a contract during the regular season. Any team can sign the free agent after the league is over, not just the one he played for in summer league. For example, Jeremy Lin, a Harvard graduate, was invited to play for the Dallas Mavericks summer league team despite being undrafted earlier in the year. In the 2010 summer league, Lin performed well and was later signed by the Golden State Warriors.

Orlando Pro Summer League

The Orlando Pro Summer League was held from 2002 to 2017, operating each year except in 2005 and 2011. Hosted by the Orlando Magic, its games were closed to the public and could only be seen on television.[6] The league named a champion for the first time in 2013 when the Oklahoma City Thunder defeated the Houston Rockets 85–77.[7][8] On July 11, 2014, the Philadelphia 76ers won the championship with a 91–75 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies.[9] The Dallas Mavericks were the final champions of the league, winning in 2017.[10] The league ended after 2017 due to the trend of NBA teams participating in the Las Vegas league.[11]

Las Vegas Summer League

The Las Vegas Summer League played its inaugural season in 2004 at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)'s arena, the Thomas & Mack Center with six NBA teams – Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers, Denver Nuggets, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, and Washington Wizards – playing a total of 13 games. With Warren LeGarie leading the way, the summer league had three successful summers in which participation increased to 16 teams playing more than 40 games at UNLV. In 2007, the NBA attached its name to the event, making it the "NBA" summer league.[12] In 2008, the summer league expanded to 22 teams and was sponsored by EA Sports. In the 2015 season, Samsung became the sponsor. In 2022 it became the NBA2K Summer League. [13] Since 2018, all NBA teams play in the Las Vegas Summer League in the typical tournament style.

Salt Lake City Summer League

From 1984 until 2008, the Utah Jazz hosted a tournament known as the Rocky Mountain Revue. Launched as a community outreach campaign to encourage interest in the Jazz in the summer of 1984 under the direction of Jazz public relations staffers David Allred and Kim Turner,[14] initially the league operated as a three-week, pro-am league in July with alumni players from Utah, BYU, Weber State and Utah State.

In 1990, after sending a team to the California Summer League the previous summer, Scott Layden, then the Jazz's director of basketball operations, invited the Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, and Sacramento Kings to join the league and moved to an all-NBA format. Over the course of the next 20 years, as few as four teams (1990) and as many as 16 teams (1998), participated, including the first International entry, Burghy Roma.[15] The league did not play games during the 1999 strike-shortened season. In 2008, the NBA Development League had a D-League Ambassadors team. The Rocky Mountain Revue also showcased the Iranian national team.

Games were hosted at Westminster College (Salt Lake City), East High School (Salt Lake City), Delta Center and the Revue's final home, Salt Lake Community College. The Revue was known for its popularity, evidenced by sold-out crowds each time the Jazz played. The Revue was one of the first NBA summer leagues to feature NBA officials, as the NBA used the league for referee development and training. The only NBA teams that did not send a team to the Revue at least once were the Los Angeles Lakers, Detroit Pistons and Washington Wizards.

Due to declining participation, the event was cancelled for the 2009 season.[16][17][18][19] However, the Jazz confirmed in November 2014 that they would revive the Utah Jazz Summer League for 2015, albeit with a smaller number of teams participating.[20] The event included the Boston Celtics, Philadelphia 76ers, and San Antonio Spurs as well as the Jazz in a six-game, four-day event at EnergySolutions Arena.[21]

In 2019, the Utah Jazz Summer League announced some changes in the event, replacing its name as Salt Lake City Summer League. The rebranding also included a new logo, as well as a new court design based on the team's popular City Edition court.[22]

California Classic Summer League

On May 6, 2018, reports surfaced that to replace the position previously held in Orlando by the Magic, the Kings would host its own Summer League event in Sacramento.[23] The event is scheduled to take place before the Las Vegas Summer League begins, with the teams in place for the event involving the Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Lakers, Golden State Warriors, and Miami Heat. Eight days later, the Kings confirmed that their own Summer League event (titled the California Classic Summer League) would take place from July 2–5, 2018 (taking a day off to celebrate the Fourth of July), replacing the Orlando Pro Summer League. On May 14, 2018, the Sacramento Kings confirmed that report.[24]

For the 2019 event, the Kings announced the team's roster for their second annual California Classic Summer League that took place on July 1–3 at Golden 1 Center. It featured a four-team format that included a double-header match-up per day featuring the Kings, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat.[25]

Las Vegas MVP winners

The award winner's team represented who they played for at the time they won Summer League MVP.

Year Nat. Player Pos. Team
2006 United States Randy Foye[26] SG Minnesota Timberwolves
2007 United States Nate Robinson[26] PG New York Knicks
2008 United States Jerryd Bayless (Top Rookie)[27] PG Portland Trail Blazers
2009 United States Blake Griffin[26] PF Los Angeles Clippers
2010 United States John Wall PG Washington Wizards
2012 United States Damian Lillard (co-MVPs) PG Portland Trail Blazers
United States Josh Selby (co-MVPs) PG Memphis Grizzlies
2013 Lithuania Jonas Valančiūnas C Toronto Raptors
2014 United States Glen Rice Jr. SG Washington Wizards
2015 United States Kyle Anderson SF San Antonio Spurs
2016 United States Tyus Jones PG Minnesota Timberwolves
2017 United States Lonzo Ball PG Los Angeles Lakers
2018 United States Josh Hart SG Los Angeles Lakers
2019 Canada Brandon Clarke PF Memphis Grizzlies
2021 United States Davion Mitchell (co-MVPs) PG Sacramento Kings
United States Cameron Thomas (co-MVPs) SG Brooklyn Nets
2022 United States Keegan Murray PF Sacramento Kings
2023 United States Cam Whitmore SF Houston Rockets
2024 United States Jalen Wilson SF Brooklyn Nets

Champions

Year League Champion Score Runner-up Championship MVP
2013 Las Vegas Golden State Warriors 91–77 Phoenix Suns Ian Clark
2014 Las Vegas Sacramento Kings 77–68 Houston Rockets Ray McCallum Jr.
2015 Las Vegas San Antonio Spurs 93–90 Phoenix Suns Jonathon Simmons
2016 Las Vegas Chicago Bulls 84–82 (OT) Minnesota Timberwolves Jerian Grant
2017 Las Vegas Los Angeles Lakers 110–98 Portland Trail Blazers Kyle Kuzma
2018 Las Vegas Portland Trail Blazers 91–73 Los Angeles Lakers K. J. McDaniels
2019 Las Vegas Memphis Grizzlies 95–92 Minnesota Timberwolves Brandon Clarke
2020 Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic[28]
2021 Las Vegas Sacramento Kings (2) 100–67 Boston Celtics Louis King
2022 Las Vegas Portland Trail Blazers (2) 85–77 New York Knicks Trendon Watford
2023 Las Vegas Cleveland Cavaliers 99–78 Houston Rockets Isaiah Mobley
2024 Las Vegas Miami Heat 120–118 (OT) Memphis Grizzlies Josh Christopher

See also

References

  1. ^ "NBA Summer League". InsideHoops.com. Archived from the original on November 19, 2017.
  2. ^ Zwerling, Jared. "Vegas Baby, Vegas: How Warren LeGarie Made Sin City NBA's Summer League Hot Spot". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 14 July 2015.
  3. ^ Maloney, Jack (18 November 2017). "End of an era: Orlando Magic will end Orlando Pro Summer League after 14 years". CBS Sports. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  4. ^ "2019 NBA Summer League schedules released". NBA. 22 June 2019. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
  5. ^ Stephen Noh (7 July 2023). "Summer League overtime rules, explained: How OT format works in NBA's exhibition games". The sporting news. Sporting News. Archived from the original on 13 December 2023. Retrieved 7 July 2023.
  6. ^ Robbins, Josh (November 18, 2017). "Magic will play in NBA Summer League in Las Vegas in 2018 and end their Orlando league". Orlando Sentinel. Archived from the original on November 19, 2017.
  7. ^ "Thunder at Rockets". NBA.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  8. ^ "Summer League Recap: Thunder vs. Rockets". NBA.com. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  9. ^ "76ers at Grizzlies". NBA.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  10. ^ "Mavericks win Orlando Pro Summer League - Official Website of the Dallas Mavericks". The Official Site of the Dallas Mavericks. 2017-07-06. Retrieved 2017-07-08.
  11. ^ "Orlando Magic will no longer host summer league". NBCSports.com. Associated Press. November 20, 2017. Archived from the original on November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  12. ^ Zwerling, Jared. "Meet the NBA's King of Summer". Bleacher Report. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  13. ^ Release, Official. "Tomorrow's stars to shine bright at Samsung NBA Summer League 2015". NBA.com. Archived from the original on 30 August 2016. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  14. ^ "NBA.com". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  15. ^ Utah Jazz Media Guide 2002-2003
  16. ^ Jazz cancel 2009 Rocky Mountain Revue, KSL.com, May 1, 2009
  17. ^ "InsideHoops.com - Rocky Mountain Revue". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  18. ^ "NBA.com: 2010 NBA Summer League schedule". NBA.com. Archived from the original on 10 December 2018. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  19. ^ "Rocky Mountain Revue canceled for 2009". Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  20. ^ "Utah's Rocky Mountain Revue NBA summer league may return". USA Today. Retrieved 12 July 2016.
  21. ^ "Jazz Complete 2015 Summer League Schedule Released". Utah Jazz. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  22. ^ "Utah Jazz's 2019 summer league gets a facelift". The J-Notes. 2019-05-06. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  23. ^ "NBA Planning Summer League in Sacramento". 6 May 2018.
  24. ^ "Kings to Host California Classic Summer League at Golden 1 Center". NBA.com. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  25. ^ "Kings Announce California Classic Summer League Roster and Mini-Camp Schedule". Sacramento Kings. Retrieved 2020-05-19.
  26. ^ a b c "Summer League History". NBA.com. July 21, 2009. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  27. ^ McMenamin, Dave (July 21, 2008). "Q&A with the Las Vegas MVP". NBA.com. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  28. ^ "Coronavirus pandemic causes NBA to suspend season after player tests positive". www.nba.com. Retrieved 2021-08-18.

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