Frank Burlison

LONG BEACH – Some of Southern California’s – and beyond – better high school boys basketball underclassmen were at McBride High for the Pangos All-American Preview Camp Saturday.

The Top 30 Crème of the Crop All-Star Game Most Outstanding Players were sophomores Mahamadou Diop (who led San Gabriel Academy to the State D-III championship in Sacramento on March 14) and Siincere Hudson (Inderkum High in Sacramento).

The 6-foot-9 Diop – who is expected to play for Mali’s national team this summer – scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in 21 minutes for Team Blue, which fell to Team White, 103-98, in the all-star game.

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LONG BEACH – Some of Southern California’s – and beyond – better high school boys basketball underclassmen were at McBride High for the Pangos All-American Preview Camp Saturday.

The Top 30 Crème of the Crop All-Star Game Most Outstanding Players were sophomores Mahamadou Diop (who led San Gabriel Academy to the State D-III championship in Sacramento on March 14) and Siincere Hudson (Inderkum High in Sacramento).

The 6-foot-9 Diop – who is expected to play for Mali’s national team this summer – scored 16 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in 21 minutes for Team Blue, which fell to Team White, 103-98, in the all-star game.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Tyran Stokes made his first “real” high school season a memorable one – even if he and his Sherman Oaks Notre Dame teammates couldn’t quite get over the “Roosevelt hump”.

The 6-foot-7 Stokes, who played at Prolific Prep School in Napa as a freshman and sophomore before relocating to the San Fernando Valley in the fall, is the BurlisonOnBasketball top SoCal junior for the 2024-25 season.

He heads a group of players in the region’s Class of 2026 that could prove as deep and gifted as anywhere in the country, including Jason Crowe, Jr.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – Here’s the first cache of individual, BurlisonOnBasketball Southern California honors for the 2024-25 boys high school basketball season.

Got a firm grasp on your seats?

OK, here goes . . . Eastvale Roosevelt gets a bunch of them!

Brayden Burries capped a remarkable, two-season run with Roosevelt by scoring 37 and 44 points, respectively, in the Mustangs’ South Regional (79-76, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame) and State Open (80-60, San Francisco Riordan) championship victories.

A year after leading the Mustangs to runner-up spots to Harvard-Westlake in the CIF Southern Section and South Regional Open finals to take the BurlisonOnBasketball top junior honor, Burries (pictured) adds the senior prize to his ever-growing bag of kudos, that includes McDonald’s All-American and California Player of the Year by Cal-Hi Sports and MaxPreps.

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LAGUNA NIGUEL – After slogging through seven games of the toughest “real high school” sectional and regional playoff fields in the country, nothing the North had to offer seemed must of an obstacle for the Eastvale Roosevelt Mustangs in Saturday night’s State Open Division boys’ championship game in Saturday.

And that was the case, as Coach Steve Singleton’s club dropped the Brayden Burries hammer on San Francisco Riordan, 80-60, in the Golden 1 Center in Sacramento.

The Mustangs got a State Open Division final record 44 points from the Burries – one of six California-based McDonald’s All-Americans from the Class of 2025, two of those residing at Prolific Prep School in Napa – after he had dropped 28 on Harvard-Westlake (March 8) and 37 against Notre Dame of Sherman Oaks (Tuesday night) in the South Regional to earn the trip North.

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