In Las Vegas, Thanksgiving week now means college basketball.
Las Vegas will play host to three different tournaments — Men Who Speak Up Main Event at MGM Grand, Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational and Global Sports Classic during the holiday week.
“The beauty of Vegas is that it’s quickly become the capital for basketball when you start looking at everything on the docket from Summer League to USA (Basketball) to the AAU tournaments to Pac-12,” Jon Albaugh, senior associate director of bd Sports, which puts on the Main Event, said. “Everybody loves coming here now and the Las Vegas community really embraced basketball as kind of its signature sport.