Salt Lake City’s NBA Summer League starts today, and the Grizzlies will be there. Eight of Memphis’ regular-season main rotation or likely two-way players will be on the 17-man Grizzlies squad, including
- First-round draft picks Jake LaRavia and David Roddy
- Second-round draft picks Kennedy Chandler and Vince Williams Jr.
- Undrafted 2022 signee Kenny Lofton Jr.
- Second-year Grizzlies Ziaire Williams and Santi Aldama
- Third-year Grizzly Xavier Tillman Sr.
The Grizzlies play the Philadelphia 76ers tonight at 6 on ESPN. Tomorrow they’ll play the OKC Thunder at 6 on ESPN2.
I wonder how this works for second-round draftees like Kennedy Chandler. He doesn’t get guaranteed rookie scale like the first-rounders, and as far as I know, he hasn’t signed a contract yet. So, how does he get paid for participating in Summer League? Anyone got inside NBA knowledge?
A/C update: To recap, my air conditioner hasn’t been working effectively since mid-June. I put in maintenance requests on our building’s online portal June 13, June 16, and June 23. As of the last week of June, none of those requests had been serviced. I tried to catch someone in the building office, but every time, the door was closed.
On Thursday, June 30, I got off the elevator and found the office door open, with a lady I hadn’t seen before on the phone. Given the authority with which she spoke, I figured out she was a district manager.
I explained my situation to her, and she said, “Let me look in the system and see if your requests are in there.” After a minute on the computer, she said, “Yes, I see all three of them. I have a maintenance man coming on site about 1 today. I’ll send him up.”
I came home that night hoping to be greeted with a blast of cold air as I opened my door. Nope. Hot air and a note. “Hold on parts. Needs Freon.” Well, at least they looked at my A/C unit. That was more progress than I’d had in almost 3 weeks.
Unfortunately, they didn’t come back Friday, so I spent the July 4 weekend in a warm apartment. To clarify, the A/C isn’t totally out. When we have highs in the 80s/dew points in the 60s it can get my apartment down to about 74. When we have highs near 100/lows near 80/dew points in the 70s (that’s the forecast for all this week) my A/C can’t get my apartment below 80.
It’s currently 7:34 AM and it’s sitting right on 80 as I write this. I am so tempted to go to Bardog when it opens at 8:00. But I don’t want to make drinking at 8 AM the norm as it has been at past points in my life. So I’ll sit here and write through the heat and take breaks to play Wordle and Globle and see if Pluto TV is showing an episode of Bar Rescue I haven’t seen.
Maybe back tomorrow. Who knows.