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Nothing tops Vegas and hoops

By Bill Simmons
Page 2

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Editor's note: This column appears in the July 23 issue of ESPN The Magazine. When the NBA moved its annual Summer League to Vegas, on paper the combination of basketball and gambling was right in my wheelhouse. I should have been sleeping outside the Thomas & Mack Center waiting for the first game, right? Nope. I missed the first three years ('04, '05 and '06) and would have missed 2007 if I hadn't needed a column idea. Heading to Vegas without a definitive angle, I was like a poker player goi ...

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