The NBA Summer League is the first chance to see the rookie crop in action and the last chance to see NBA basketball until the preseason. All 30 NBA teams are participating in Las Vegas this year for the first time ever, providing observers with a smorgasbord of hoops action to both analyze and enjoy.
But with how big the event has grown, it can be easy to assign too much weight to good and bad performances alike, forgetting that these are glorified exhibition games between teams’ youngest and rawest prospects.
So while reflecting on the Phoenix Suns’ first three Summer League games, I thought, “Why not do both?