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When BYU guard Jimmer Fredette worked out for NBA team after NBA team in selling himself as a potential draft pick this summer, he constantly was left guessing. Rarely – if ever – did any of those doing the evaluating give him open critiques or pointers on what he needed to improve if he went back to school. Now, he’ll learn firsthand this week what those within several NBA franchises wouldn’t tell him.

Four games into the Sacramento Kings’ six-game NBA Summer League schedule, coach Mario Elie was losing his voice. Such is life when coaching a high-risk, high-reward prospect such as forward DeMarcus Cousins, who the franchise selected fourth overall in last month’s NBA draft.

While the pomp and circumstance surrounding LeBron James’

Despite earning Mountain West Conference Player of the Year and third team All-American honors in his lone season at New Mexico, Las Vegas native Darington Hobson was already looking at traveling a tough road toward a roster spot with the Milwaukee Bucks. This week, it might have gotten a bit tougher for the 37th overall selection in last month’s NBA draft. Hobson, who averaged 15.9 points, 9.3 rebounds and 4.6 rebounds per game in 2009-10 for the Lobos, will sit out of this week’s NBA Summer League with a mild groin injury.

Every year, the NBA Summer League is full of unproven rookies and veteran free agents hoping to catch someone’s eye, helping lead to fulfilling the dream of landing on a real NBA roster. Typically, each team only has maybe one roster spot to gun for. Oddly enough, that’s not the case for the team considered now to be the odds-on favorite to win next year’s NBA title. For the Miami Heat, the number is undefined, but it’s clearly caught the attention of those on the team’s summer league squad, which opened up its 5-game Las Vegas schedule on Sunday night with a thrilling 77-72 triumph over New Orleans at the Cox Pavilion.

Bishop Gorman High graduate Kashif Watson knows his road to landing on a NBA roster won’