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LAS VEGAS – Day I of the LeBron James Skills Academy concluded with the camp’s namesake – and, if the mostly day-long buzz in the Cashman Center has some factual heft to it, the soon-to-be Cleveland Cavalier – running with the participants in portions of each of the first four games played Wednesday night.

I watched the players in their drills and “practices” earlier in the afternoon, then tried to focus on the first half of the game (between “Michigan State” and “Florida”) on Court I, then did the same thing for the second half of the game on Court II (“Syracuse” vs.

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BELLFLOWER, Ca. – The St. John Bosco High boys’ basketball program will play host to the “Braves Big 12 Summer Classic” this week.

Eight of the 12 programs in the event participated in last spring’s first-ever CIF Southern Section Open Division Playoffs, including ultimately sectional and state champion Santa Ana Mater Dei.

Pool play begins Monday afternoon at 3:30, with the championship game set for Saturday evening at 6 o’clock.

The pool-play schedule:

Monday: 3:30, Gardena Serra vs. Anaheim Servite; 5, L.A. Cathedral vs. La Habra Sonora; 6:30, Bellflower St.

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NORWALK, Ca. – The first-ever Buzz Elite Basketball Spectacular, presented by AvitaH20, tips off Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at Cerritos College.

Thirty-two teams, split into eight pools, will compete in the action that will be played on the Cerritos College gymnasium’s three courts simultaneously.

Among the entrants are teams from Long Beach Poly, Redondo, Gardena Serra, Torrance Bishop Montgomery, San Juan Capistrano JSerra, Cerritos Gahr and Long Beach Jordan.

The championship game will be played Thursday night (Court 2) at 8:20.

The pool play schedule:

MONDAY

Court 1: 3, p.m.,

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REDONDO BEACH, Ca. – The 16-team Redondo High Basketball Summer Classic gets underway Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock and wraps up Sunday afternoon at 3:40 with the championship game.

Among the squads joining the host Sea Hawks in the four “pools” of the event are defending State Division IV champion Torrance Bishop Montgomery; Southern Section 1AA champion Long Beach Poly; 2AA Southern Section champion Anaheim Canyon; and Southern Section “Open entrants” Bellflower St. John Bosco (which won the State Division II crown last spring) Compton and Montebello Cantwell.

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LOS ANGELES – Day V of the 28^th Nike Fairfax Summer Basketball Classic will culminate in the championship semifinals on Friday evening.

Chino Hills, led by Class of 2016 standout Lonzo Ball (who has scored 45 and 43 points, respectively, in his team’s first two wins over Harvard-Westlake and Lawndale), takes on Chatsworth Sierra Canyon in the first semifinal at 6 o’clock.

Coach Ty Nichols has a roster littered with gifted prospects in the Classes of 2016 (point guard Devearl Ramsey), ’17 (posts Cody Riley and Ira Lee, and wings Adam Seiko and Terence McBride) and even ’18 (wings Michael Feinberg and Cassius Stanley).

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