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News: Melvin Johnson, along with other former rams, gets NBA summer league invite

In what has become almost a regular part of the off season, Ram fans wait to see which players will get some attention from the NBA, every players’ hopeful destination.

Recent graduate, Melvin Johnson, did not get called on draft night but did get an invite from the NBA’s Houston Rockets. The Rockets asked Johnson to join them for their summer league team in Las Vegas starting on Friday, July 8th.

Johnson will join former VCU teammates in NBA’s summer league play.

Treveon Graham is returning to summer league action after playing with the Spurs franchise last summer and will join the Orlando Magic “white” team this year.

VCU graduate, Briante Weber, will also see some action for Miami Heat’s summer league team. Both Graham and Weber will play in the Orlando region of summer league play.

 

Houston Rockets Summer League Schedule
Friday, July 8th 8pm ET Houston vs Atlanta NBATV
Sunday, July 10th 6:30pm ET Houston vs Sacramento NBATV
Monday, July 11th 6pm ET Houston vs D-League All Stars NBATV

Orlando Magic White Team Summer League Schedule
Saturday, July 2nd 11am ET Orlando vs Dallas NBATV
Monday, July 4th 1pm ET Orlando vs Sacramento NBATV
Wednesday, July 6th 1pm ET Orlando vs New York NBATV
Thursday, July 7th 3pm ET Orlando vs LA Clippers NBATV

Miami Heat Summer League Schedule
Saturday, July 2nd 5pm ET Miami vs LA Clippers NBATV
Sunday, July 3rd 3pm ET Miami vs New York NBATV
Tuesday, July 5th 1pm ET Miami vs Orlando Blue NBATV
Thursday, July 7th, 5pm ET Miami vs Detroit NBATV

Michael Hagan is a '04 VCU Graduate (Mass Comm) and a lifelong Richmonder. He also is a full time commercial & video producer. His favorite VCU ...