The Mobley brothers are indicative of the talent in Las Vegas this week. Evan, a 7-foot power forward, is the top player in the 2020 class, according to ESPN. Isaiah, a 6-9 power forward, is ESPN’s No. 16 player in the 2019 class.
Basketball
Daishen Nix is one of the best — and most underrated — point guard prospects in the country, a distinction he’s comfortable with for now.
The conclusion of NBA Summer League signals the end of the AAU basketball season, and, as always, the country’s best club basketball teams will congregate in the desert for the final live recruiting period.
A list of the 2017-18 all-state athletes from the winter season expected to return this year.
Here is a recap of every team that won a state title during the 2017-18 winter sports season.
Jayden Perkins was a three-sport star for Virgin Valley this year.
Liberty senior Rae Burrell was a star basketball player and track athlete last season.
The Washington Wizards selected Las Vegan Troy Brown Jr. with the 15th pick in the first round of the NBA draft on Thursday. Brown, a 6-foot-7-inch guard/forward, played one year at Oregon after starring at Centennial High School.
Chaparral basketball player Nick Doland is the 2017-18 Richard Nelson Courage Award winner
Centennial continued its run as the state’s most dominant girls basketball program by rallying for a 74-65 overtime win over Liberty in the Class 4A state championship game.
A look at the Review-Journal’s Athletes of the Year from the winter season.
Virgin Valley three-sport athlete Jayden Perkins won the Male Athlete of the Year
Cottrell, a 6-foot-10-inch prototypical modern big man, is set to attend three prestigious, invite-only national camps this month, and will compete in front of NBA scouts and personnel against some of the nation’s best players.
Centennial freshman point guard Taylor Bigby is blossoming into one of the top freshmen on the West Coast and already has secured scholarship offers from Colorado and Utah of the Pac-12.
The 6-foot-1-inch, 185-pound senior shortstop was batting .515 with four home runs, six doubles, 12 stolen bases and 19 RBIs through last week as the Rams’ leadoff man.