It's Summer League Time

Bryan Crawford of NBC Chicago passes along information regarding the Bulls upcoming NBA Summer League venture, which will be taking place in Las Vegas. You may remember last season this was cancelled because of the lockout, but this is an otherwise annual occurrence in the NBA offseason. 

The roster breaks down like this:

Jimmy Butler, Marquis Teague, Demetri McCamey, Leon Powe, and a bunch of random clowns whose names can be found within the article. For those unfamiliar, the NBA Summer League is less a time for compeition, but more a time for players to showcase their talents to the NBA execs/scouts who are watching on.

Mat likes this for various reasons. Partially because he gets to lounge around, eating cheese while watching mediocre basketball. But mostly because he gets his Bulls fix. He is very interested in seeing Marquis Teague donning the black and red for the first time and witnessing his perceived first round skills.

Mat expects Jimmy Butler to dominate over the course of the 4 games the Bulls are playing (July 17th vs. Celtics, 18th vs. Rockets, 20th vs. Warriors, and 21st vs. Clippers) as Butler's role is expected to be heavily increased this upcoming season because of the departure of Ronnie Brewer.

Also included in this bunch is former Celtics second round pick, Leon Powe. Powe has had numerous knee issues in the past, but has been known to explode in previous NBA games. Mat is interested to see what this 4 year NBA vet has left in the tank.

Last, and certainly least, Mat wants to see what Demetri McCamey has left. Purely because of the fact that Mat believes McCamey to be the biggest waste of basketball talent this side of Kwame Brown. Mat remembers fondly hearing of his fantastic performances while playing at the University of Illinois, only to be undone by his reputation to be lazy and unable to be coached.

Mat doesn't expect much out of the latter two, but knows big things should come out of the first two mentioned. Hopefully the basketball is bearable, and the Bulls front office learns a little bit more about their team before the season starts up.