The greatest point guard ever from a Northern California high school will be in the head coaching chair for one team in this year’s NBA Finals while the other team will be partially led by one of the greatest point guards ever from a Southern California high school. There’s only one other player on the […]
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State’s All-Time NBA All-Star Alums
California’s 50th player to appear in an NBA All-Star Game was Klay Thompson in 2015. In honor of that total, we decided to start a new NBA All-Star Alumni list for our exclusive state record book. It has now been updated through the 2024 All-Star Game....
Boys BB: Rectroactive All-State Primer
All-State boys basketball teams from Cal-Hi Sports have now been extended back to the 1954-55 season with new teams added from the 1978-79 season going backward based on research. Some of the players are well-known such as longtime NBA referee Leon Wood, former Laker Byron Scott, an MLB Hall of Famer, a recently retired longtime […]
Mr. Basketball 2023: Husky Repeat
It turned out to be closer than one might have thought with one month to go in the 2023 season, but Jared McCain makes it two in a row for Centennial of Corona having the California Mr. Basketball State Player of the Year. He follows teammate Donovan Dent from last season. He’s just the third […]
NBA Christmas Day Quiz
Christmas Day is a big day for the NBA so we thought it would be fun to create a trivia quiz for our users to enjoy. We did this one thinking about recently departed McClymonds of Oakland stars Bill Russell and Paul Silas. But there’s also plenty to be happy about, including the Brooklyn Nets […]
Eleven from CA on NBA 75th Team
The highlight of the 2022 NBA All-Star Weekend two weeks ago was the celebration of the all-time best players throughout the 75 years of the league. The NBA named and honored the players, but they weren’t ranked in any particular order. There were 11 from California high schools who were presented. Here’s our ranking of […]
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 4)
This is the final installment of a series checking out the all-time best players from California’s CIF sections plus select counties and regions in boys basketball. We’re ending with the CIF North Coast Section, CIF San Francisco Section and the Inland Empire area of the CIF Southern Section. All three teams feature at least one...
Boys BB: State 30 Greatest Teams (1-15)
It had to be one of the undefeated teams from McClymonds of Oakland between 1958 and 1962 or one of the two unbeatens from Compton (1968, 1969) sitting at the top of these rankings. We also felt strongly about putting the two 35-0 teams from the CIF state championship era (which began in 1980) way...
Top 25 Boys Hoops Players We’ve Seen
This list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime boys basketball analyst and Southern California grassroots regular Ronnie Flores and also a different […]
ALL Boys Hoops State Records Updated
FOR ALL OF THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM STATE RECORDS, CLICK HERE. It took a couple of days, but all of the exclusive state boys basketball records on this site have now been completely updated with approximately four times the categories as before, including individual all-time leaders for scoring, free throw shooting, three-pointers, rebounds, assists, steals,...
