Orlando Robinson — a former Centennial player who recently signed a standard contract with Miami — went for 36 points and 11 rebounds in a Summer League victory.
Boys Basketball
Talented basketball players are coming out of Las Vegas every year. Some of them have cemented their high school legacy by setting potentially unbreakable records.
A 2020 graduate of Liberty, Gonzaga’s Julian Strawther on Thursday became the seventh native Las Vegan to be a first-round NBA draft pick.
Durango’s boys basketball team showed resiliency through a late-season coaching change and battled through the challenging Class 5A Southern League to win the state title.
Highly touted point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. will forgo his senior season at Liberty to join UNLV for the upcoming season.
Durango’s Taj Degourville announced his college commitment to San Diego State on Sunday. He chose the Aztecs over UNLV, Oklahoma and Southern California.
Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. announced Sunday that he is committing to UNLV, choosing the Rebels over Arizona, Florida, Gonzaga, Houston and UCLA.
Liberty junior point guard Dedan Thomas Jr. is still pondering his college choices and possibly graduating early to reclassify for 2023.
Durango announced Las Vegas native Ron Riley as the school’s new boys basketball coach. The Trailblazers won the Class 5A state title last season.
An overwhelming majority of Nevada high school boys and girls basketball coaches support a 35-second shot clock in a survey conducted by the NIAA.
The Democracy Prep girls basketball team, the reigning Class 2A state champion, had its appeal approved to move to Class 5A at Wednesday’s NIAA appeals meeting.
Chad Beeten resigned in February after he made complaints to the school about what he saw as its racial mistreatment of his basketball players, according to a letter he wrote school officials.
A 6-foot-7-inch Las Vegan, Pepperdine’s Maxwell Lewis has blossomed into one of college basketball’s most talented players after starring as a saxophonist at Somerset-Losee.
Here is the 2023 Nevada Preps All-Southern Nevada boys basketball team.
The NIAA gave preliminary approval to make Class 5A in boys and girls basketball for Southern teams only. Class 5A Northern boys and girls teams would drop to 4A.
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