NBA Summer League Demystified - How a Summer League Team is Built

I have to admit, I still follow the NBA. For years I've read updates about the summer league during the off-season. Yet if you had asked me about the league's purpose, I could only guess that it was used by a team to evaluate the readiness of its recent draft picks.

Sam Hinkie, the Rockets' Vice President of Basketball Operations was featured in ESPN's True Hoop blog and discussed his organization's approach to building a summer league team. Needless to say, my uneducated guess only tells part of the story. The link above is a quick-read and outlines the mindset of a front-office when building a summer-league team.

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You'll also find an update on former Syracuse Orange center Darryl Watkins in the column.