It’s been a couple of weeks since doing the all-time all-L.A. County team on its own as part of this series, so here’s the next installment. For this one, we’re checking out the all-time top players from the CIF Central Coast Section, CIF San Diego Section, CIF Oakland Section plus those from Ventura, Santa Barbara...
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Boys/Girls BB Blasts From The Past
We presented Blasts From The Past in the fall for football, and will now look at doing the same for boys and girls basketball when those teams should be playing this winter. These are highlights from around the state from 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. We’ve also added one […]
Boys BB Schools of Century (So Far)
Going by a points system based on final state top 20 rankings since the 1999-2000 school year and matching previous posts for schools of the century (so far) plus football, girls basketball, softball and baseball, here’s the final list of this series for boys basketball. The No. 1 total, by a wide margin, was compiled...
Boys/Girls BB Blasts From The Past
We presented Blasts From The Past every week in the fall for football, and will now look at doing the same for boys and girls basketball when those teams should be playing this winter. These are highlights from around the state from 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35 and 40 years ago. From 15 […]
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 2)
We present this all-time all-L.A. County team with a heavy heart since learning on Saturday that one of the all-time greats, guard Paul Westphal, had died at age 70 from brain cancer. As mentioned in our first part of this series, for boys basketball, we have to present L.A. County as a separate county or...
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 1)
After having just done this series of posts for football, we’ll now do the same for boys basketball. Based on how these players did after high school, here is a look at the first three of these teams as we wait for high school sports to hopefully begin in the state. For this group of...
Season Opening NBA Alumni List
After doing opening day alumni lists of those from California high schools in the NFL and MLB, here’s the same for the NBA as the 2020-21 season tips off this week. We did this list previously at the start of the 2020 NBA playoffs, but several key Californians have switched to different teams and we […]
Two MVPs Who Were Calif Teammates
All high schools can boast of a legendary athlete, the one who made it all the way to the big leagues in their chosen sport. Every so often, however, a school produces that player who ascends to the elite level of superstardom, to be ranked among the best of the best. McClymonds High School of […]
NBA Draft: Melo, O go No. 3, No. 6
The 2020 NBA Draft went down on Wednesday at ESPN headquarters in Connecticut with many hoop fans from California focusing on where former Chino Hills High teammates LaMelo Ball and Onyeka Okongwu were picked. We knew it would be in the lottery and it was with Ball going at No. 3 to the Charlotte Hornets […]
NBA Draft: More All-Time State Lists
With the Chino Hills duo of LaMelo Ball and Onyeka Okongwu going at No. 3 and No. 6 in the first round of the 2020 NBA Draft, we have come up with two new all-time historical state lists. One is a look at those teams that have had three future NBA players on the roster...
