While potential trades and free agent signings were conceivably being considered in the office section of the Trail Blazes’ practice facility in Tualatin, out on the two courts, the team held their first practice in preparation for the Las Vegas Summer League, which begins his weekend on the campus of UNLV.
And just like the last week of free agency, there’s no shortage for storylines for the 2019 Las Vegas Summer League edition of the Portland Trail Blazers. Sure, the level of interest might not be the same and the course of the 2019-20 NBA regular season isn’t going to be dramatically altered by anything that happens over the course of the next two weeks in the Nevada desert, but there are ample reasons to tune in when the Trail Blazers start their slate of games beginning Saturday afternoon at the Thomas & Mack Center.