Candace Buckner of The Washington Post wrote an article highlighting NBA Summer League’s impact on Vegas in the summer, how the event has grown to expand to all 30 NBA Teams, and Warren LeGarie’s path to running the event of the Summer in Las Vegas.

Special thanks to Candace Buckner on this special feature. Read below an excerpt from Candace’s article:

The concourse is quiet. On the eve of the NBA Summer League, workers are putting the final touches on the Thomas & Mack Center at the University of Nevada,  Las Vegas. A vendor hangs posters while the son of an NBA head coach, here as an intern, adjusts a sign. As these duties are performed behind the curtain of the NBA’s biggest summer spectacle, the ringleader of the show sweeps into the lobby.

“I love it when we all get together! I looove that,” Warren LeGarie sings as he walks toward Dana Chapman, a senior designer and art director for the NBA, and Albert Hall, the summer league’s vice president of business operations.

As the summer league’s executive director, LeGarie has brought the basketball world together for 14 straight Julys. Along with Hall, his business partner whom he calls the “brains of the outfit,” LeGarie formed the inaugural Vegas league in under two months. It had only six teams. Vegas has since become the NBA’s premier offseason destination.

Photo credit: Joe Buglewicz for The Washington Post

Read full article here: Meet the NBA’s king of summer, who saw opportunity in Vegas when pro sports didn’t