Sebastian Pruiti of NBA Playbook does a really nice job of breaking down Gani Lawal’s performance in summer league, where he was named to the all-tournament team after averaging 15.4 and 7.4 on about 50 percent shooting. Here are Bassy’s conclusions on Lawal:
In my opinion, Gani Lawal’s performance during the Las Vegas Summer League should [...]

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LAS VEGAS — Immediately after the Phoenix Suns selected Earl Clark with the 14th overall pick in the 2009 draft, then-GM Steve Kerr doubted Clark would get much playing time as a rookie behind reserve forwards Jared Dudley and Lou Amundson.
At the time I thought it was undoubtedly a motivational tactic, as the Suns didn’t [...]

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The Phoenix Suns’ summer league finale went just like every other summer game this week in Vegas against an NBA opponent – with another loss, this time dropping an 86-76 decision to the Golden State Warriors.
The Summer Suns trailed by just one entering the fourth, but the Warriors pulled away while Phoenix scored just 13 in [...]

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The big news of today revolved around the Suns officially completing deals for Hedo Turkoglu and Josh Childress, but summer league continued in Vegas nonetheless.
I skipped town Tuesday night (man, what a trip) so this analysis will be a little less comprehensive than the past few were.
In this one the Suns dropped a 93-82 decision [...]

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LAS VEGAS — Scottie Reynolds wasn’t even expected to play this week after suffering a strained Achilles working out at Villanova last week, his chance at making a summer league impression wasting away by the day.
But after feeling good at Sunday’s practice and Monday morning he came in and told Summer Suns coach Dan Majerle [...]

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LAS VEGAS — If you were expecting Earl Clark to turn into a bonafide NBA player this summer league, you’ve got to be disappointed about the Louisville product’s first two games.
Clark turned in another mediocre performance in Saturday’s 103-69 thrashing at the hands of the Toronto Raptors, going for 15 points and five boards on [...]

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