
NBA Summer League 2015: Suns vs. Spurs TV Schedule and Predictions
The Phoenix Suns and San Antonio Spurs will suit up for a championship game Monday, the NBA's Las Vegas Summer League title game after an NCAA-style bracket.
Winning the summer title might not mean a lot in the grand scheme of things—they are just high-profile exhibitions, after all—but it does broadcast loud and clear two teams perhaps standing above the rest in the depth department.
Both teams look great and feature plenty of high-upside talent, and one even features the MVP.
2015 NBA Summer League Championship Game
When: Monday July 20, 9 p.m. ET
Where: Thomas and Mack Center, Las Vegas, Nevada
TV: NBA TV
On their own, the Suns are pretty interesting.
Once the bracket portion of the league started, the Suns didn't have many issues blowing past the Milwaukee Bucks, Chicago Bulls and New Orleans Pelicans.

In large part, the team has rookie Devin Booker to thank. Many groaned when the team selected the Kentucky product, citing Phoenix's guard depth and Booker's inability to create his own shot as reasons to look elsewhere.
Booker's proving folks wrong.
Case in point: To get to the title game, Booker led the way with 31 points on 10-of-17 shooting against New Orleans. The Suns chronicled his epic outburst:
Booker isn't alone, though, not with T.J. Warren dropping 31 the game before Booker's explosion. Archie Goodwin continues to score in droves, too.
In the championship game, though, Phoenix's three-headed monster will need to be at its best to counteract the MVP.
The MVP, of course, is San Antonio's Kyle Anderson. The NBA Summer League's Twitter account revealed the honor and provided quite the strong reasoning in the form of averages:
Anderson is a great story, a 2014 opening-round pick who remains a mystery on one of the league's deeper teams.
As Spurs summer league head coach Becky Hammon told NBA.com's Steve Aschburner, the organization is quite happy with his development and will continue to look to him for leadership and production:
"He knows our system the best [among summer leaguers], he knows those conversations that coaches have had with him and what's expected of him, and he has absolutely stepped up and taken control of that. We're happy with what he's doing right now. We're going to keep leaning on him a lot.
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"Slo-Mo" isn't alone by any means, not with Jonathon Simmons putting on a show from a dunking standpoint, but he is one of the best players set to take the court Monday and the clear factor the Spurs will lean on to bring home the title.
The Anderson-Booker duel makes for quite the interesting showdown and perhaps a preview of things to come for quite a long time.

When it comes down to it, though, the Spurs might not have enough juice to run with Phoenix. Touting the MVP is nice, but San Antonio doesn't have the depth to compensate if Anderson comes out in poor form or suffers with the defense's attention on him.
It's not an issue the Suns will encounter. Phoenix has three players capable of scoring in bunches, which is why Warren posted just two points in the team's last game. The Suns love their small-ball lineups and getting out and running, which seems like the perfect counter to a team led by Slo-Mo in more ways than one.
Look for the Suns to get out and run, with Booker leading all scorers and Warren close behind. Anderson will put on a strong showing as always, but it won't be enough against the deepest, most potent team in Las Vegas.
Prediction: Suns 99, Spurs 89
Stats and info are courtesy of NBA.com unless otherwise indicated.
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