Local eighth-grader Richard Isaacs earned a men’s basketball scholarship offer from UNLV last weekend.
Boys Basketball
Durango High School is hosting the Durango Fall Classic this weekend for the 23rd consecutive year.
Colin Darfour, who was fired in March after leading Clark to the Class 4A state boys basketball final in his lone season at the school, confirmed Saturday he was hired as the coach at Silverado.
Dave Bliss, who as Baylor University basketball coach in 2003 was at the center of a murder scandal involving his players, was hired recently to coach the Calvary Chapel boys team and serve as athletic director, a teacher at the school confirmed Wednesday.
UNLV picked up a commitment from Clark High School’s Trey Woodbury, a four-star recruit. He is the first commitment of the Rebels’ 2018 class.
The Las Vegas Propsects of the Nike EYBL advanced to the Las Vegas Classic championship game on Sunday afternoon at Spring Valley High School.
Tavin Lovan scored 23 points on Sunday afternoon to help Team Thad (Tennessee) to a 77-61 victory over NY Renaissance (New York) in the Invite Championship of the Fab 48 AAU tournament at Bishop Gorman High School.
Liberty’s Julian Strawther stayed with New Orleans Pelicans swingman Quincy Pondexter in California the past six weeks in preparation for his final AAU live period of the summer to learn the game and bolster his recruiting stock.
Las Vegas Knicks guard James Bridges is using his AAU tournament experience this week to prepare for the upcoming high school season.
With an estimated 3,500 AAU basketball teams playing in tournaments across the valley this week, fans still seem to be gravitating towards one person: South Carolina Supreme’s Zion Williamson, the No. 2 overall recruit in the country.
Shareef O’Neal, a 6-foot-8-inch forward and Arizona commit, built his game studying countless NBA players — none of them being his famous father Shaquille O’Neal.
What overbearing basketball dad LaVar Ball wants is apparently what overbearing basketball dad LaVar Ball gets, or so it seemed Friday at the Adidas Summer Championships in Las Vegas.
LaMelo Ball, the soon-to-be junior guard from Chino Hills (California), followed up Wednesday’s 37-point performance in a loss with 36 points on Thursday in Big Baller Brand’s 111-102 victory against Play Hard Play Smart (California) at Cashman Center.
The nation’s top high school players are looking for more than a springboard to the NBA in a college program.
An AAU basketball game at Cashman Center was nearly canceled Wednesday night due to fire-code concerns as an overflow crowd jammed court 5 to watch LaVar Ball’s Big Baller Brand face SC Supreme.
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