The Las Vegas Summer League is a lot like how the Bowl Championship Series in college football used to be. If you lose, you probably can’t win a championship.
This means that even though the Portland Trail Blazers won three of their four Summer League “regular season” games, they don’t have a great chance to make it to the championship game.
But there’s a chance.
There’s a lot of moving parts, but Casey Holdahl spells it out in a long Twitter thread.
Today is the last day of scheduled play at the Las Vegas Summer League.