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FRISCO, TX – After one and one-half sessions of Nike Elite Youth Basketball League – 2014-style – it’s apparent there is no one dominant team.

Five teams left Saturday’s competition in the spacious and spiffy Field House USA in this Dallas suburb with 5-1 records after BABC, Athletes First and Spiece Indianapolis Heat suffered their first losses of the season.

The Boston Area Basketball Club (63-46 to Team Final of Pennsylvania), Oklahoma-based Athletes First (79-78 to The Family of Michigan) and Spiece (65-62 by way of MOKAN and its Missouri and Kansas players) fell in the second game each played Saturday afternoon.

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SACRAMENTO – Forty teams combined to play 79 (give or take) games during the first weekend of the 2014 season of the Nike-fronted Elite Youth Basketball League.

Anyone who suggests that they can offer a concise rundown on the bulk of the players who showed up in the Jackson Sports Academy is either prone to considerable exaggeration or is a bald-faced liar (as opposed to a “full-bearded fibber”, I suppose).

I feel comfortable is suggesting that I don’t fall into either category.

So there will be no pretense of a complete rundown for the time being.

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SACRAMENTO – Fifty-eight games down with 30 more on tap for Sunday.

That’s how Session One of the 2014 Nike Elite Youth Basketball League stood after Saturday’s second day of play at the Jackson Sports Academy during the first week of the Nike EYBL spring “season”.

I did my very best to zero in, from courtside – from start to finish – on seven of those games Saturday.

Here are some of my observations – often of the “random” variety:

*The “Lawson Brothers” put on a nifty display while helping Team Penny (with players from in and around Memphis) the St.

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SACRAMENTO, Ca. – Session 1 of the 2014 version of Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League tipped off Friday night at the Jackson Sports Academy.

I was courtside for two of the 10 games played, which allowed me to zero in on – up-close and personal – two of the five best players in the national class of 2015.

And Cheick Diallo (Team SCAN/Centerreach, NY, Our Saviour New American) and Allonzo Trier (Athletes First/Rockville, MD, Montrose Christian) more than delivered the goods.

The six-foot-eight Diallo (who came to the United States, from the African nation of Mali a little more than two years ago) dominated play, in and around the lane, while helping his team edge Canada’s CIA (Christians in Action) Bounce club, 46-44.

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GARDEN GROVE, CA. – The two-day, 110-team, 11^th Southern California Hoop Review proved to be a nice preview, of sorts, for the 2014 California Supreme program that is part of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League field.

It may be the deepest – if not the best, per se – squad put together by director Gary Franklin and coach Miles Simon.

A more vivid indication of how good this version of the California Supreme squad is will be not be available until opening weekend – April 25-27, in Sacramento – of the 2014 EYBL season.

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