Jerryd Bayless (photo. Aaron Taylor) In this morning's Smack we hit on the fact that Vegas Summer League terror Jerryd Bayless was curiously left off the roster for the USA Select squad that will be scrimmaging the USAB varsity while guys like O.J. Mayo and the Robin Lopez made the cut. This afternoon the USAB program [...]

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The whispers coming into tonight were that Bayless would be seeing more minutes at the PG. Perhaps Koponen would even be getting a rest. I do not put much stock into it. He'll just end up bringing the ball, swinging it to someone, getting it back and doing what he has been doing all summer league. I don't see him deferring to JR Pinnock and Bernard Robinson. (And if you're wondering why ...

As many fans know, during the month of July, the NBA holds three different Summer Leagues to showcase the young talent of the league. Here are the rankings based off of Summer League play, not potential. 1) Jerryd Bayless, Portland Trailblazers This kid has been unstoppable offensively, scoring 27.7 points per game while getting to the free throw line 55 times in the first three games of ...

At the very least, you just hope your top draft pick can get acclimated to the increased speed and athleticism of the NBA during summer league games. If he plays well on top of that, then great. But if he dominates, then you've really got yourself a player. Kevin Love and Jerryd Bayless have been nothing short of impressive. Facing each other last night in Las Vegas , Love ...

Coach Monty WIlliams and Jerryd Bayless react to the loss to Kevin Love's Timberwolves and look to the remaining games, including more Bayless at point guard....

Roughly halfway through the summer league, it’s time to take a look at what we’ve seen so far. Keep in mind, there’s a lot we can’t learn from the summer league, especially if we just look at stats. (remember how Marco Bellinelli went off last year?) The game is played at a breakneck pace, there is [...]

It's a double dose of Vegas audio today. In this, the first installment, I caught up with Matt Kamalsky and Mike Schmidt of DraftExpress.com, both of whom have been covering the NBA Summer Leagues feverishly. Or you can download the...

There have been tons of story lines and interesting topics so far in the NBA’s summer league in Las Vegas, but one player has stood out. I’ll let Maurice Brooks of ESPN’s True Hoops do the explaining: Any talk of a summer league all-star team or MVP has to start with Jerryd Bayless. Simply put, the Portland frosh makes things happen. After getting to the line 23 times in ...

After watching the Blazers' Petteri Koponen struggle mightily to bring the ball up against summer league competition last night, I basically crossed him off the list of guards in the Blazers' system (which basically answered some of these questions). Even without Koponen, that guard glut currently includes Jerryd Bayless, Steve Blake, Sergio Rodriguez, Rudy Fernandez [...]

Coach Monty Williams, Jerryd Bayless and Petteri Koponen react to Tuesday's 75-74 overtime loss to Sacramento. Thanks to Casey Holdahl for asking the majority of the questions heard here....

Two of today's five Vegas Summer League games will be aired on NBA TV: Lakers/Sixers at 8 p.m. EST starring Thaddeus Young, Coby Karl and our man Dawan "Doc" Robinson (#40 for Philly), followed by Kings/Blazers at 10 p.m. EST starring Jerryd Bayless, Spencer Hawes, Lottery pick Jason Thompson and Pat Ewing Jr. The online live-streaming [...]

I flew to Las Vegas to watch a day of the NBA Summer League. Wow. The Cavaliers played the Knicks in the first game. I swear that if you put the And1 team on the floor and went shirts and skins, you could not tell which team was which and the level of play would not deteriorate any further. Las Vegas as a city must appreciate bad basketball more than any city on earth. The gym was packed during

And we're not just saying that because he's our guy.

Portland Trail Blazers rookie guard Jerryd Bayless scored 28 points Monday night as he led the Blazers past the Washington Wizards 78-73. Bayless in just his first game in the Las Vegas Summer League tournament, looked like a seasoned vet on the floor. The lottery pick scored 10 of Portland’s first 16 points. The Wizards were led by Nick Young and Andray Blatche who each scored 17 ...

We're here with the Blazers debut in the Vegas Summer League today. Today is our first glimpse at Jerryd Bayless and Nicholas Batum in a Blazers uniform. Unfortunately I have a feeling in my stomach that a good size of Blazer fans are going to use this game to either put JB on a pedestal or condemn. It's just kind of the nature of Blazer fans...some people said Oden sucked after his first ...

Jerryd Bayless (photo. Aaron Taylor) Forget the shabby online video feeds with the "Twilight Zone" hovering scoreboard; the Vegas Summer League is back on TV. Today's action includes the debut of Danilo Gallinari (Knicks/Cavs, 4 p.m. EST), a possible first look at Jerryd Bayless (Blazers/Wizards, 8 p.m. EST) and the debut of Kevin Love (Wolves/Mavericks, 10 [...]