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Li’Angelo Ball
SportStar Of The Week | Chino Hills | Basketball | Senior • If there was any doubt whose team Chino HIlls was now that Lonzo Ball is at UCLA, his younger brother answered that in a hurry. He scored 56 points in a 121-89 win over Orange Lutheran-Orange as part... Read more
Raising The Bar
Story by MIKE WOOD | Photos by BERRY EVANS III An already towering bar of success has been raised to loftier heights for Salesian College Preparatory-Richmond’s basketball team. And that’s something the Pride’s players and coaches realize and fully embrace. It’s a natural progression for a team that shook... Read more
Perfect Storm
Story by CLAY KALLAM | Photos by NORBERT von der GROEBEN You may have heard of Kerri Walsh — but not that many are aware that the Olympic volleyball star was a superb basketball player at San Jose’s Archbishop Mitty High back in the day. And she wasn’t alone... Read more
NoTime2Chill Gets at it For Next Level Basketball
If it’s training you want. If you want to get to the next level. Then there’s NoTime2Chill! Founded in 2010, NoTime2Chill Skills Academy is dedicated to helping individuals find the joy in playing and learning the game of basketball. Our goal is to provide more than just a casual... Read more
The Fabulous Forbes
From two generations of Harlem Globetrotters, the Forbes siblings are ready for center stage Read more
Masters in Arc-eology
Pinewood girls basketball pulled off the national upset of 2015-16 thanks to deadly distance shooting — and much more. Read more
SportStars’ All-NorCal Basketball Teams
THRILLING 30: Our first, second and third teams for boys and girls 2015-16 SportStars All-NorCal Basketball Teams BOYS FIRST TEAM PLAYER OF THE YEAR SOLOMON YOUNG | 6-7, Forward | Sacramento | Sr. The Dragons’ big man led Sacramento to a 30-win campaign that included a Sac-Joaquin Section Div.... Read more
Girl’s Basketball- Transition Game
In girl’s basketball there’s a rule of thumb about the constant traffic in transfer rumors: Believe them when you see the girl going to class at the school she’s supposedly going to attend. In the case of Sierra Smith, a starting guard for national-power St. Mary’s-Stockton last year, there’s... Read more
Coaches, Don’t Be Afoul of NCAA Recruiting Requirements
BE ALERT ABOUT THE NCAA REQUIREMENTS FOR 2016. Prior to participating in an NCAA-certified event, team coaches must submit a team roster to the NCAA and fulfill other recruiting requirements. Bigfoot Hoops shares with us these important data points: Click here for a summary of these requirements. Each coach on the... Read more
Welcome to SportsPlex Nation
HAVE BALL, WILL TRAVEL: If your neighborhood doesn’t have an oversized youth sports facility, it’s falling behind the times. Welcome to SportsPlex Nation! Outside it’s an unseasonably warm January weekday afternoon in Walnut Creek. But Mike Samuels is inside. And happy to be there. Samuels is showing off the... Read more
Hoop Dreams Ivan Rabb
It would have been nearly impossible for someone to have written a script that ended the 2015 California high school basketball season quite like it did. To refresh, Bishop O’Dowd High’s Ivan Rabb needed to make a free throw. In double-overtime with less than one second on the clock and... Read more
Ain’t No Cinderella
Dougherty Valley boys basketball is enjoying shocking everyone but itself Read more