At some point this week, probably today or Friday in front of a packed house at the Thomas & Mack Center, something is going to happen. Something like Zion Williamson’s showstopping steal and dunk in his 2019 summer league debut, which was followed, fittingly, by an earthquake. Something like the 2018 scene when LeBron [...]
Special thanks to Shane Young at Forbes for this great article on HallPass, highlighting our work throughout with NBA Summer League, Sports Business Classroom and more! We’re excited to keep growing these properties and create more opportunities. Here’s an excerpt from the article: What started as “six handshakes and a box of flyers” 17 [...]
Thank you to Ethan Strauss of The Athletic on his write-up for HallPass Media's involvement with assisting The Basketball Tournament (TBT) in putting on the first live basketball event of the year. The HallPass team is on the ground running with the team at TBT out in Columbus, Ohio, helping capture the essence of [...]
When the coronavirus brought American sports to a screeching halt in March, it wiped out games, shuttered arenas and disrupted the ancillary action related to the competitions, too. For Albert Hall and his Costa Mesa-based marketing firm HallPass, it upended months of planning, including all their established expectations for another festive NBA Summer League [...]
Las Vegas Review Journal's Mark Anderson writes on how 11 days of NBA Summer League has been a challenge to schedule, especially with 2 additional teams in China and Croatia, but overall has been a positive experience for everyone involved! "Like an effective politician, Warren LeGarie constantly works the crowd. He shakes more hands [...]
Special thanks to Arash Markazi of the Los Angeles Times on this write up about NBA Summer League featuring Warren LeGarie and Albert Hall, its history and all the special moments that take place during the event out in Las Vegas. Here's an excerpt from of the article from Arash: "LeBron James and Anthony Davis have yet [...]
In some respects, the 2004 Democratic National Convention was responsible for changing the game in politics and sports. For one, those four days at the FleetCenter (now TD Garden) in Boston provided the platform from which an unknown state senator from Illinois named Barack Obama would launch himself into the United States Senate and, eventually, [...]
Mark Anderson of Las Vegas Review Journal taps in to discuss NBA Summer League and its record breaking fan attendance to date: "Friday’s opening day of the NBA Summer League sold out last week, and now tickets for Saturday’s action are gone, too. The Summer League features all 30 NBA teams plus the Chinese and [...]
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. [...]
Team HallPass, led by Albert Hall, has continued to be mentioned in the news for their contributions to the NBA Summer League. Their hard work and dedication to building an authentic and meaningful NBA experience has not gone unnoticed. "Summer league exhibitions used to be an afterthought. What was once a loosely organized collection of teams convening for [...]
