Call it the Pelican brief. No, not that 1990s movie starring Julia Roberts. Rather, it’s a phrase that sums up Zion Williamson’s first experience as a professional basketball player. The first overall draft pick from […]
The NBA’s Summer League tournaments represent different things to different players. For this year’s draft picks, they’re an opportunity get acquainted with the NBA style while playing for the first time in the uniforms of […]
Gary Trent Jr. helped the Portland Trailblazers advance to the semifinals of the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League on Sunday by contributing eight points, five rebounds and two assists to a 95-80 victory against the […]
Twenty-seven players with North Carolina ties have seen action in at least one game at the Las Vegas NBA Summer League. Only two of them, Wake Forest’s Codi Miller-McIntyre and Duke’s Gary Trent Jr., is […]
Wendell Carter Jr.’s mother made headlines recently with some controversial comments criticizing college basketball, Duke and its Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski. But there was at least one thing about which she was spot […]
Codi Miller-McIntyre’s basketball career didn’t get exiled to Siberia after going undrafted in 2016. But it came close. The former Wake Forest point guard played last season for Parma Basket in Russia’s VTB United League, […]
Sunday was a day of rest for some of the biggest names in the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League tournament, with recent first round draft picks Marvin Bagley III and Grayson Allen of Duke and […]
Trevon Duval was the only member of Duke’s starting five last year that wasn’t selected in the NBA draft. But if he keeps putting up performances like the one he had Friday on the opening […]
© 2017 — North State Media LLC