You knew this was coming. The summer exhibition leagues have been a huge success around the country, so it makes sense that someone would try to organize a league just with NBA players.
No better place than Vegas.
A swarm of Knicks, Clippers and Rockets players will soon descend on Las Vegas for two weeks of intense competition — only without coaches, contracts or the imprimatur of the N.B.A.
The site will be the Impact Basketball gymnasium, about two miles from the Strip. The unofficial commissioner will be Joe Abunassar, a longtime trainer of N.B.A. players. More than 40 players, locked out of N.B.A. facilities because of a labor standoff, have committed to play. Chauncey Billups, John Wall, Zach Randolph and Stephen Jackson will be among the headliners.
They need a better headliner that Billups and Wall.
Paging Kevin Durant.