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LONG BEACH, Ca. – It was a championship game seemingly set on becoming more memorable for its turnovers and ill-advised shots attempt – by both squads.

But, in the closing moments, all that was washed aside Sunday afternoon during the championship game of the Invitational Division of the Pangos Summer Sweet 16 on Court 3 of the Cabrillo High gymnasium:

*With his Prodigy Elite team trailing by four points, guard Jordan McLaughlin (Etiwanda High) scored on consecutive drives, the second of those with 11 seconds to go to tie the score.

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LONG BEACH — Squads led by a couple of the best point guard-prospects anywhere navigated their way through quarterfinal- and semifinal-games Saturday contest in the Invitational Division of the Pangos Summer Sweet 16.

The victories, coupled with wins on Friday night, gave them the opportunity to play for the division’s championship on Sunday afternoon at 3 o’clock on Court 3 of Cabrillo High’s main gymnasium.

Jordan McLaughlin (Etiwanda High), fresh off a flight from Philadelphia where he participated in a Reebok-fronted camp, led Prodigy Elite to victories over Belmont Shore and the Las Vegas Prospects to earn the Inland Empire-based (in San Bernardino County) club to its spot in the finale.

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LONG BEACH, Ca. – The “Invitational” division of the Pangos Summer Sweet 16 Tournament got underway Friday night over the three quarts in the main gymnasium on the campus of Cabrillo High in the LBC.

Those eight games set the stage for what should be some, uh, “sweet” second-day showdown at the same location.

Take this as your “invitation” to Cabrillo High (2001 Santa Fe Ave, by way of a southward trek on the 710, and west-bound exit on Willow and south-bound turn on Santa Fe).

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ANAHEIM, Ca. – NCAA men’s basketball coaches were free to sit, watch and evaluate high school hoopsters, beginning at 5 o’clock Wednesday evening.

And that’s exact what dozens of them did, once the first “evaluation period” of July, running from Wednesday at 5 until Sunday at 5 p.m., tipped off with action in the Double Pump Summer Tip-Off Tournament at the American Sports Center.

There were some competitive and entertaining games – including the San Diego All-Stars Pump-N-Run and Oregon Ambassadors, won by the Trey Kell-led San Diego squad, 63-61, in a contest that wasn’t on the books until about five minutes before 11 p.m.

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LAS VEGAS – The 2013 LeBron James Skills Academy was a wrap Monday night at the Cashman Center in the northern part of this sun-baked city.

But – unfortunately — for a couple of reasons, the camp ended with a bit more chill than sizzle.

A plethora of pre-camp and in-camp injuries of various degrees robbed the event of what promised to be some very deep and gifted team rosters, and some terrific individual matchups.

By the time “Florida”, led by point guards Lourawls Nairn and Quentin Snider, had held off Duke (and Chris McCullough and outstanding underclassmen Ivan Rabb and Isaiah Briscoe), 59-53, for the championship, Monday night, the numbers of those watching and those playing had dwindled considerably.

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