L AS VEGAS — Kingston Flemings is a blur, a streak in the arena, the paint monster that his teammates see in practice. He also leaves Sin City as one of the stories of the Players Era Festival in a lot of ways. Houston and Flemings do not come close to winning the tournament, do not even place in the top four in the convoluted — need a scientific calculator to determine — system this NIL monster of an event relies on. But in college basketball in November nothing matters more than the impressions you leave. And the ceilings you can reach.

Flemings and Kelvin Sampson’s now 7-1, and not playing that well, Houston team leave plenty of impressions while not coming anywhere near their ceiling. Flemings, the true freshman point guard, puts up one of the single-most impressive games of the tour

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