The Las Vegas Propsects of the Nike EYBL advanced to the Las Vegas Classic championship game on Sunday afternoon at Spring Valley High School.
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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.
Michigan State’s Tom Izzo, Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski, Kentucky’s John Calipari, Arizona’s Sean Miller and Villanova’s Jay Wright were among the head coaches in attendance at the three AAU tournaments in the valley Wednesday.
Three of Nevada’s top six players in the class of 2018 headline the Vegas Elite team at the Fab 48 tournament
Here is a list of every player that was selected to one of the Review-Journal’s 2016-17 winter all-state teams and is expected to return this upcoming season.
Clark boys basketball coach Chad Beeten confirmed on Monday afternoon that junior-to-be Sedrick Hammond “has left the program.”
For the past week, Portland Trail Blazers rookie Zach Collins has stayed at his parents’ house while working out at alma mater Bishop Gorman in preparation of the 11-day NBA Summer League, which begins Friday.