Frank Burlison

PHOENIX – Sunday’s final day of the first Section 7 Team Camp is set to bare the basketball “fruit” of a whole lot of work on the part of event organizers’ and high school players and coaches that have made this three-day gathering such a success for all concerned.

Championship games and consolation contests in 10 divisions – one of those for top-flight girls’ squads – are set for Sunday, with shapes of as a whopper showdown for the title in the “All About People” bracket.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Juniors-to-be Paolo Banchero and Chet Holmgren picked up the top individual honors Saturday evening following the conclusion of the 25^th NBPA Top 100 Camp in John Paul Jones Arena – the home of the University of Virginia 2019 national championship program.

The 6-foot-11, 180-pound Holmgren (Minneapolis) was tabbed – by the John Lucas-led camp players’ selection committee – was chosen Most Outstanding Player for Saturday’s 10-team, bracket playoff after he and his “Spurs” teammates knocked off the “Knicks”, 100-83, in the final game.

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  NORWALK – The 17^th Pangos All-American Camp wrapped up Sunday afternoon at Cerritos College with 60 or so players playing in the event’s two all-star games and with a lot of future college standouts among those non selected to the all-star camps.

   That’s the caliber of prep basketball talent that annually participates in this event – it’s loaded with guys on the path to college scholarships and, for the very best, the NBA.

  And, to no fault of how they might have performed, a lot of gifted and hard-working players, among the 108 who played over the weekend, didn’t make the all-star cut.

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  NORWALK – Saturday’s Day II of the 17^th Pangos All-American Camp only served to emphasize what was already a consensus of thought on the subject:

  Evan Mobley and Cade Cunningham are a cut – or two – above the rest of the 100-plus players on hand at Cerritos Community for one of the most high-profile events in grassroots hoops.

   Someone is going to have to turn in whooper performances in the final “conference games played Sunday morning and in the top all-star game later in the afternoon to upset the near-certain scenario expected to unfold with either Mobley (Rancho Christian in Temecula in SoCal) and Cunningham (Arlington, TX, by way of Montverde Academy in Florida) being tabbed No.

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  NORWALK – The 17^th Pangos All-American Camp tipped off Friday night at Cerritos College with its annual gathering of future McDonald’s All-Americans and NBA first-round selections.

   And, for the second year in a row, NBA scouts – the ones actually employed by the NBA, that is – were also in attendance.

    With so many quality players to see and three games going on at the same time, one can get a bit of sensory overload if you spend as much time turning around to watch the game going on behind as you do watching the game in front of you.

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