by GREEN BAY, Wis. – Former Green Bay guard Sandy Cohen III (Oneida Tribe) was invited to the Cleveland Cavaliers mini-camp in preparation for NBA Summer League 2019, the team announced on Monday. Cohen will report to the Cavs on Thursday in Cleveland and the plan is for him to travel with the team to Salt Lake City, Utah for the Salt Lake City Summer League session prior to Las Vegas.
The Cavs will play three games in Salt Lake, playing on July 1-3.
The 15th NBA Summer League will take place July 5-15 in Las Vegas at the Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion on the campus of UNLV. All 30 NBA teams and two international teams will play in Las Vegas.
Cohen will look to earn a roster spot with the Cavs, if not impress other teams that will be in attendance during the summer.
The Seymour native set the Division I single season program record for points, scoring 666 this past season on his way to earning First Team All-Horizon League honors and CIT All-Tournament team honors. He was invited to participate in the Portsmouth Invitational and also participated in the 3X3U Tournament for the Horizon League at the NCAA Final Four.
Cohen led Green Bay in all major statistical categories, averaging 17.5 PPG and 6.4 RPG. He was welcomed to numerous private workouts for various NBA teams, including the Indiana Pacers, Cleveland Cavaliers and Dallas Mavericks.
MGM Resorts NBA Summer League 2019 will be an 11-day, 83-game competition that opens with all 32 teams playing four preliminary games each. The top eight teams are then seeded in a tournament, which culminates with a Championship Game on July 15. Teams that do not qualify for the tournament will each play a consolation game. Every team will play at least five games and as many as seven at NBA Summer League.
Last year, all 30 NBA teams participated at MGM Resorts NBA Summer League for the first time. NBA Summer League 2018 set a record for total attendance (139,972) for the second consecutive year and matched the single-day attendance record (17,500), which was established in 2017.
The 2018 event was the most-watched NBA Summer League ever, with ESPN and NBA TV combining to amass 30.4 million hours viewed. Fans across social media platforms accounted for more than 565 million video views, an increase of 35 percent from the previous year.
To view the 2019 NBA Summer League schedule, click here.
