I’m afraid my UK fandom is keeping me from watching Bruce Pearl coach the US team in the Maccabiah Games (I hear that they absolutely destroyed Mexico), though I do wish to give a hearty “Shalom Aleichem” to all of the Jewish readers. Fortunately, the NBA Summer League provided some entertainment in this basketball wasteland. The games end tonight, so it’d be a bit foolhardy to give a full retrospective, however, I want to take you on a journey – a journey to meet the Guys Who Really Stepped Up. I suppose the full caveats are in order. Obviously, performances are a bit skewed since teams only include players who have been in the league for three years or less. It’s more of less a series of practices, allowing new players to get to play with some members of their team in a NBA game setting. Still, they give us a glimpse at how talent is unfolding, and provide basketball junkies like me a much needed mid-summer fix. Without this, I’d turn in Gollum, watching and re-watching high-light reels while whispering ‘my precioussssssss’. (more…)

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