It’s summertime, and the basketball world has once again descended upon Las Vegas to get some run in the heat. All 30 teams have sent a summer league squad to the desert; the action kicked off on Monday, and today it’s the Toronto Raptors’ turn, as they take on the New Orleans Pelicans at the Thomas & Mack Center.
It can be a challenge to sort out what matters and what’s noise in summer league. There’s a lot of offense, a lot of running, a lot of gunning. Not so much defense. A lot of guys you’ve never heard of (or perhaps that might make you think, “hey, wasn’t he the guy who.