NBA Summer League co-founder hopes expansion bidders ‘see what we do’

We need to rewrite as original SinCity Press journalism, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly. Use professional journalism tone, vary sentence structure. Output only rewritten article, no preface, commentary, notes, no reporter contact info, email addresses, social media handles, publication credits. Must keep quotes exactly as they appear in original (including any weird formatting? The original quotes have some odd characters due to encoding errors, but we must preserve them exactly). We need to rewrite the article, not just copy. We must keep all facts: Warren LeGarie organized NBA Summer League in Las Vegas annually since 2004; hadn't been to the "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" motion earlier Wednesday morning; the airy bulbs connected the motion flashed red, achromatic and bluish to christen NBA Summer League’s 22nd variation during a ceremonial hosted by Clark County commissioner Michael Naft; LeGarie and co-founder Albert Hall attended; quote from LeGarie Monday day arsenic play continued at Thomas & Mack Center: "You walk it each the clip and you don’t deliberation astir (stopping) until you bash it and you bash get chills due to the fact that it’s truthful iconic." etc. We need to preserve all quotes exactly. Must ensure we keep the exact text of each quote, including any weird characters like "arsenic", "astatine", "bash", etc. Those appear to be garbled but must be preserved. We must rewrite the surrounding narrative but keep quotes unchanged. Also preserve numbers, dates, names. Must not add any contact info. We need to produce a SinCity Press style article: likely a local Las Vegas focus, professional tone. Let's extract the content: Paragraphs: - Warren LeGarie has organized NBA Summer League successful Las Vegas annually since 2004, but hadn’t been to the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” motion earlier Wednesday morning. - The airy bulbs connected the motion flashed red, achromatic and bluish to christen NBA Summer League’s 22nd variation during a ceremonial hosted by Clark County commissioner Michael Naft. - LeGarie and co-founder Albert Hall proudly attended. - As LeGarie said Monday day arsenic play continued astatine Thomas & Mack Center: “You walk it each the clip and you don’t deliberation astir (stopping) until you bash it and you bash get chills due to the fact that it’s truthful iconic.” “It’s thing that radical astir the satellite know. … It was great.” - Also an cause for coaches and executives, LeGarie truthfully acold is satisfied with the play and turnout at UNLV with six days of NBA Summer League left. He made his rounds done Thomas & Mack Center and Cox Pavilion yet again, warmly greeting passersby who are also successful in the hoops business. - He also carved out time to chat with the Review-Journal about the Summer League and hoops in Las Vegas. - RJ: How’s the vibe of Summer League truthfully acold for you? - LeGarie: Everybody wants to be an NBA franchise. It’s casual to talk. Let’s do it. The mode you can truly amusement the NBA you’re supporting this — bargain tickets, travel to Summer League. This is close present the 31st franchise. (NBA commissioner Adam Silver) called it that. And by the way, radical person responded. We’ve had 4 truly bully days here. We’re very, precise happy. - RJ: How does Las Vegas as a city and marketplace present align with the vision you had when you guys first brought Summer League here? - LeGarie: I’d love to take each the credit. Adam Silver saw it way, mode up of everybody. He understood because (late former commissioner David Stern) just kept focusing on “It’s the Strip. It’s guys (who are) debased lives. It’s the things you spot successful the movies.” But nary of that is true. This was the fastest increasing community. School districts. All these things going on. And Adam was keenly alert of that. - RJ: How do you feel similar Las Vegas has shaped Summer League the past 2 decades? And how has Summer League shaped Las Vegas? - LeGarie: Well, you guys are our market. But at the same time, if you want to grow that market, it needs a franchise, past you’ve got to be capable to amusement that you sincerely want it and enactment immoderate goes connected present with NBA basketball, including us. The first 4 days look to bespeak that that’s the case. People are supporting us. The crowds are into it. Remember, we’re present 12 months a year. Our assemblage work radical person enactment connected each the acts. They’re each Vegas acts. Every singer, each dancer, they’re each (from) Vegas. - RJ: Why does Summer League continue to operate successfully in Las Vegas? - LeGarie: Sometimes, luck and timing. In the beginning, the NBA was close to support (Summer League) retired of a gambling constitution and that, but having the 2 gyms unneurotic was a crippled changer. That’s just fortuitous. There’s nary mode you can bash each 30 teams in 1 gym unless you’re doing fundamentally a 24-hour java store because you would commence at 6 in the greeting and decorativeness at 6 in the morning. - RJ: Did you expect Summer League becoming a cardinal gathering constituent for the NBA at large? - LeGarie: A batch of my coaches who lived present were moving retired players. They were just looking to marque definite that this was anchored, it was successful in 1 place, truthfully they could be around it for sure. I don’t deliberation we imagined that we’d marque it into amusement as much as it is existent basketball. It’s not an NBA game, but it’s definitely an NBA experience. - RJ: Seems similar an expansion franchise is trending toward coming here. If and when that happens, what relation do you think Summer League played in getting Las Vegas to that point? - LeGarie: To be determined, in each fairness, because the caller owners will person the accidental in what they do. The ownership in the city are the ones who determines what benignant of Summer League they want, if any. We don’t cognize who the eventual (expansion bid) victor is. All we’re doing is making definite they spot what we do. - Emphasize that Q&A edited for clarity and length. Contact Sam Gordon... but we must not include contact info. We need to preserve quotes exactly, including the weird words like "arsenic", "astatine", "bash", "deliberation", "clip", "radical", "satellite", "thing", "cause", "truthfully", "acold", "done", "carved out", etc. Must not change them. We need to rewrite the article but keep quotes unchanged. Also preserve numbers: 2004, 22nd variation, six days, 31st franchise, 4 truly bully days, 2 decades, 2 gyms, 30 teams, 24-hour java store, 6 in the greeting, 6 in the morning, etc. We must not add any new facts. We must not include reporter contact info or email or social media. We need to produce a SinCity Press style article: likely start with a lead summarizing the event, then quotes. Let's craft. We must ensure we don't inadvertently modify any quote text. We'll copy quotes exactly as they appear, including punctuation and spacing. Let's extract each quote block: Quote 1: As LeGarie said Monday day arsenic play continued astatine Thomas & Mack Center: “You walk it each the clip and you don’t deliberation astir (stopping) until you bash it and you bash get chills due to the fact that it’s truthful iconic.” “It’s thing that radical astir the satellite know. … It was great.” We must keep that exactly, including the opening quote marks and the internal quote marks. The text includes weird words: "arsenic", "astatine", "clip", "deliberation", "bash", "thing", "radical", "satellite". Must preserve. Quote 2: RJ: How’s the vibe of Summer League truthfully acold for you? LeGarie: Everybody wants to beryllium an NBA franchise. It’s casual to talk. Let’s bash it. The mode you tin truly amusement the NBA you’re supporting this — bargain tickets, travel to Summer League. This is close present the 31st franchise. (NBA commissioner Adam Silver) called it that. And by the way, radical person responded. We’ve had 4 truly bully days here. We’re very, precise happy. We need to keep that exactly. Note weird words: "bersyllium", "casual", "bash", "tin", "amusement", "close present", "radical", "truly bully", "precise". Keep. Quote 3: RJ: How does Las Vegas as a city and marketplace present align with the vision you had when you guys first brought Summer League here? LeGarie: I’d love to take each the credit. Adam Silver saw it way, mode up of everybody. He understood because (late former commissioner David Stern) just kept focusing on “It’s the Strip. It’s guys (who are) debased lives. It’s the things you spot successful the movies.” But nary of that is true. This was the fastest increasing community. School districts. All these things going on. And Adam was keenly alert of that. We need to keep exactly. Note: "take each the credit", "saw it way, mode up", "because (late former commissioner David Stern)", "spot successful the movies", "nary", "fastest increasing". Keep. Quote 4: RJ: How do you feel similar Las Vegas has shaped Summer League the past 2 decades? And how has Summer League shaped Las Vegas? LeGarie: Well, you guys are our market. But at the same time, if you want to grow that market, it needs a franchise, past you’ve got to be capable to amusement that you sincerely want it and enactment immoderate goes connected present with NBA basketball, including us. The first 4 days look to bespeak that that’s the case. People are supporting us. The crowds are into it. Remember, we’re present 12 months a year. Our assemblage work radical person enactment connected each the acts. They’re each Vegas acts. Every singer, each dancer, they’re each (from) Vegas. We need to keep exactly. Note weird: "take each the credit"? Actually this quote: "Well, you guys are our market. But at the same time, if you want to grow that market, it needs a franchise, past you’ve got to be capable to amusement that you sincerely want it and enactment immoderate goes connected present with NBA basketball, including us. The first 4 days look to bespeak that that’s the case. People are supporting us. The crowds are into it. Remember, we’re present 12 months a year. Our assemblage work radical person enactment connected each the acts. They’re each Vegas acts. Every singer, each dancer, they’re each (from) Vegas." Check weird words: "capable", "amusement", "enactment", "immoderate", "goes connected", "present", "bespeak", "assemblage", "radical person". Keep. Quote 5: RJ: Why does Summer League continue to operate successfully in Las Vegas? LeGarie: Sometimes, luck and timing. In the beginning, the NBA was close to support (Summer League) retired of a gambling constitution and that, but having the 2 gyms unneurotic was a crippled changer. That’s just fortuitous. There’s nary mode you can bash each 30 teams in 1 gym unless you’re doing fundamentally a 24-hour java store because you would commence at 6 in the greeting and decorativeness at 6 in the morning. We need to keep exactly. Note weird: "close to support", "retired", "gambling constitution", "2 gyms unneurotic", "crippled changer", "nary mode", "bash each 30 teams", "fundamentally a 24-hour java store", "commence at 6 in the greeting", "decorativeness at 6 in the morning". Keep. Quote 6: RJ: Did you expect Summer League becoming a cardinal gathering constituent for the NBA at large? LeGarie: A batch of my coaches who lived present were moving retired players. They were just looking to marque definite that this was anchored, it was successful in 1 place, truthfully they could be around it for sure. I don’t deliberation we imagined that we’d marque it into amusement as much as it is existent basketball. It’s not an NBA game, but it’s definitely an NBA experience. We need to keep exactly. Note weird: "A batch", "lived present", "moving retired", "marque definite", "anchored", "successful in 1 place", "truthfully", "don’t deliberation", "marque it into amusement", "as much as it is existent basketball". Keep. Quote 7: RJ: Seems similar an expansion franchise is trending toward coming here. If and when that happens, what relation do you think Summer League played in getting Las Vegas to that point? LeGarie: To be determined, in each fairness, because the caller owners will person the accidental in what they do. The ownership in the city are the ones who determines what benignant of Summer League they want, if any. We don’t cognize who the eventual (expansion bid) victor is. All we’re doing is making definite they spot what we do. We need to keep exactly. Note weird: "in each fairness", "caller owners", "person the accidental", "benignant", "cognize", "eventual (expansion bid) victor", "making definite they spot". Keep. We also have the introductory sentences that are not quotes. We must rewrite those but preserve facts. Let's rewrite the article. Structure: Lead: Warren LeGarie, co-founder of NBA Summer League, attended the ceremonial lighting of the “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas” sign, marking the league’s 2