Spurs-Hornets set for Summer League’s 1st day

SAN ANTONIO — No. 1 draft decide Victor Wembanyama of Saint Anthony and No. 2 decide Brandon Miller of Charlotte may go head-to-head on the primary day of NBA Summer time League in Las Vegas.

The NBA has San Antonio enjoying Charlotte on July 7, which is opening day in Las Vegas. It’s going to be a summer time rematch; the identical two groups are enjoying on the California Basic in Sacramento on July 3, the primary day of that occasion.

Each Wembanyama and Spurs coach Gregg Popovich have mentioned the generational French expertise will play this summer time. It is simply not clear what number of occasions he’ll play, or if he’ll play in Sacramento, Las Vegas or each.

However the NBA is setting it up for prime time on Day 1 in Vegas, simply in case. The San Antonio-Charlotte recreation that day, in addition to a matchup between Portland and Houston — that means No. 3 decide Scoot Henderson of the Path Blazers and No. 4 decide Amen Thompson of the Rockets — will each be televised that evening on ESPN.

“I am unable to wait to put on my first Spurs jersey,” Wembanyama mentioned.

Summer time League in Las Vegas runs July 7-17, overlapping with the inaugural NBA Con occasion — the league’s new celebration of basketball and tradition — originally of the match.

Different key summer time league matchups and notes:

• 4 groups will attain the playoffs, with semifinals July 16 and the championship recreation July 17.

• All groups will play 4 video games earlier than the playoff subject is set. Non-playoff groups will play a fifth recreation July 15 or 16.

• The Thompson twins — Amen and No. 5 Ausar Thompson — might sq. off on July 9 when Amen’s Rockets play Ausar’s Detroit Pistons.

• San Antonio performs Portland on July 9. It could possibly be one other assembly between Wembanyama and Henderson; they performed close to Las Vegas this previous fall in a pair of exhibitions between Wembanyama’s French workforce and Henderson’s G League Ignite.

• Denver and Miamithe franchises that met within the NBA Finals earlier this month with the Nuggets successful in 5 video games, can have their summer time groups play July 14.