The Summer League Jr. NBA’s 2018 Fall League is under way as games began September 21st at the Tarkanian Basketball Academy in Las Vegas, NV. This marks the 2nd full year of Friday Night Hoops for boys and girls grades 6,7,8. The Fall league consists of 8 middle school teams (4 boys & 4 girls [...]
CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Cavaliers have announced the addition of Liron Fanan (LEE-ron Fan-an) as Director of G League Player Development. In her role, Liron will work to enrich Canton Charge players off the court through both League and team initiatives. In addition to her Charge responsibilities, Fanan will also utilize her extensive international basketball [...]
As the NBA Summer League Continues to grow, so does our Summer League family. Over the years VSL has done a great job of cultivating a special group of people. For this weeks alumni spotlight we sat down with NBA Summer League Alum Tyler Makins. Tyler just finished his third summer interning with VSL and [...]
HALLPASS &VSL HELPS CREATE VIP EXPERIENCE FOR VAYNERSPORTS PASS NFT HOLDERS AT NBA SUMMER LEAGUE HallPass Media and VSL Properties has proudly procured a partnership with VaynerSports, a full-service talent representation and brand consulting sports agency. With both HallPass Media & VaynerSports serving as agencies of record for high profile brands in the [...]
We are excited to welcome two fresh faces to the HallPass Media team! Tucker Corrigan is a recent Goucher College graduate who has worked with us at the NBA Summer League the last 2 years. The Business Management major has assisted with in-arena operations and transportation at Summer League. Tucker is a former Division III lacrosse [...]
As August comes to an end, we’d like to reflect back at how we closed out the Summer with adidas Grassroots Basketball events: adidas Gauntlet Finale (July 12-15), adidas Summer Championships (July 18-22) and adidas All-American Camp (July 22-24). ADIDAS GAUNTLET FINALE In the midst of the NBA Summer League, we had a team [...]
As the NBA Summer League continues to grow, so do the people we work with. Over the years the VSL has cultivated a very special group of individuals we like to call our “family” and it only gets bigger each year. We are very proud to shine some light on those who we've had the pleasure of working [...]
SOURCE: Las Vegas Sun, Mike Grimala The idea of Las Vegas as home to an NBA franchise has swirled on and off, with varying degrees of intensity, for more than a decade. It rose up in February 2007 when the city hosted the league’s all-star game (making it the first city without its own franchise [...]
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. [...]
SOURCE: ESPN, Mark Friedell LAS VEGAS -- There's no official start or end time, but the apex doesn't reach fevered heights until well into the day. The boundaries are ill-defined, but it consists of the approximately 700 square feet of concrete behind the baseline all the way to the players tunnel. And it doesn't have [...]
