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The 2015 – 2016 NBA season is officially over. But that doesn’t mean that the basketball action is over. NBA TV is going to have plenty of NBA action this summer beginning with coverage of the NBA Summer League.
NBA TV announced this week that it will offer basketball fans extensive coverage of all three of the NBA’s summer leagues this summer. In all, it will present a total of 60 games in 14 days from all three leagues. It all kicks off this Saturday, July 2nd with 24 games in the Southwest Airlines Orlando Pro Summer League. Those games will be played at Amway Center, practice facility of the Orlando Magic. They will be played between July 2nd and July 8th. Six other games will be broadcast from The Utah Jazz Summer League presented by America First Credit Union and Siegfried and Jensen in association with the Utah Sports Commission. Along with all of that coverage, NBA TV will also present 30 games from the Samsung Summer League 2016 from Las Vegas. Those games will be presented from July 8th – 15th. The top 10 selections in the 2016 NBA Draft are expected to take part in the games at the Thomas & Mack Center and COX Pavilion.
The Orlando Summer League opens its play July 2nd with 10 team in action on the hard court. Up first will be the Oklahoma City Thunder and Dallas Mavericks at 9am ET. The Thunder picked up 1st Round draft pick Domantas Sabonis from the Orlando Magic in this year’s draft. Speaking of the Magic, Orlando has a pair of split squad games on the same day at 11am ET (against the Charlotte Hornets) and 1pm ET (against the Indiana Pacers). Up next on the day’s schedule are the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons at 3pm ET. The Pistons drafted Henry Ellenson 18th overall in this year’s draft. The Heat and Clippers follow at 5pm ET. That is just part of the day’s schedule. More information on the day’s schedule is available online via NBA TV’s official website.
Day 2 for the Orlando Summer League will feature a key matchup between the Clippers and Thunder at 5pm ET. The Clippers picked up Brice Johnson in the first round of this year’s draft. Before that, the Pacers and Hornets tip off at 1pm ET. The Knicks and Heat follow at 3pm ET.
Moving on to the Utah Jazz Summer League, NBA TV launches coverage of that league July 4th with a showdown between the 76ers and Celtics. It will be the teams’ first meeting in the summer league schedule. Coverage of that game begins July 4th at 7pm ET. It is the first of a double-header schedule for the league’s opening day. The Jazz and Spurs follow in a 9pm ET matchup. The Spurs drafted Dejounte Murray 29th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft. Philadelphia and Boston were just as busy in the draft. Philadelphia picked up Ben Simmons with the #1 pick. They also drafted Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (24th overall) and Furkam Korkmaz (26th overall). Boston meanwhile drafted Jaylen Brown 3rd overall), Guerschon Yabusele (16th overall), and Ante Zizic (23rd overall).
Over in the Samsung Summer League, the 2016 NBA Champion Cleveland Cavaliers open play there when they take on the Milwaukee Bucks July 8th at 6pm ET. The Bucks drafted Thon Maker in the #10 spot in this year’s draft. The Hawks and Rockets tip off at 8pm ET with the Raptors and Kings rounding out the day’s coverage at 10:30pm ET. The Hawks were busy in their own right in this year’s draft, picking up Taurean Prince 12th overall via trade and DeAndre Bembry 21st overall. The Raptors picked up Jakob Peltl 9th overall. The Kings were quite busy in this year’s draft. Sacramento acquired Georgios Papagiannis and Skal Labassiere in a trade with the Suns. The team also picked up Malachi Richardson in a trade with the Hornets.
The Suns open their summer play July 9th at 4pm ET against the Portland Trailblazers. Phoenix picked up two players in last week’s draft action. The team took Dragan Bender 4th overall and Marquese Chriss 8th overall via a trade with Sacramento. The Bulls and Celtics follow in their first summer league showdown at 6pm. Chicago drafted Denzel Valentine 14th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft.
The Lakers and Warriors round out this year’s NBA TV summer league coverage on Monday, July 16th at 10:30pm ET. The Lakers drafted Brandon Ingram 2nd overall in this year’s draft. The Warriors meanwhile drafted Damien Jones 30th overall.
Those that won’t be near a television throughout NBA TV’s extensive coverage of the league’s summer play can always catch the action online. That is thanks to the league’s NBA app. It will offer live scoring, video, top stories, game alerts and more. NBA.com will have its own coverage with the Summer League Hub presented by Samsung. It will have daily updates, game trackers, video recaps, schedules, stats, bracket pages, and NBA style content. More information on NBA TV’s coverage of the NBA’s summer league play is available online now at:
Website: http://www.nba.com/nbatv
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/NBATV
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