Frank Burlison

CULVER CITY, Ca. – The first-ever Summer Take Flight Challenge boys’ basketball tournament tips off at Culver City High at 2 o’clock Friday afternoon and wraps up with a championship game set to get underway Sunday evening at 5:10.

Among the 16 schools represented in the event is Torrance Bishop Montgomery, whose Knights’ squad won the California State Open Division championship in March.

Among the others are Chatsworth Sierra Canyon, Woodland Hills Taft, Studio City Harvard-Westlake, Van Nuys, Santa Monica Crossroads and L.A. Westchester, all of which played in the State Southern Regionals last spring.

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LOS ANGELES – The 31^st Nike Fairfax Summer Classic tips off Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock with, as usual, many of Southern California’s top programs involved.

First-round action will be played with four games each on Monday and Tuesday, quarterfinals on Wednesday and Thursday, semifinals on Friday and final-day action on Saturday, wrapping up with the 6 o’clock championship game.

Mater Dei, paced by two-time all-CIF Southern Section selection and Harvard University-bound point guard Spencer Freedman and 7-foot-3 Bol Bol, is the top seed with host Fairfax, led by all-L.A.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The “Rockets” wrapped up four days of perfection Saturday evening during the final day of the 24^th NBPA Top 100 Camp in John Paul Jones Arena at the University of Virginia.

Senior-to-be point guards Luther Muhammad and Jordan McCabe combined for 17 points and eight assists in the first half as the Rockets rolled to a 28-point advantage before cruising to a 92-72 victory over the Celtics in the championship game.

The Rockets, at 9-0, became the first team in the event’s history to go unbeaten, according to Camp Director Purvis Short.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The Rockets, with a coaching staff fronted by current NBA guard Rajon Rondo, will take a 6-0 record into the Saturday morning start to the NBPA Top 100 Camp tournament on the final day of the 24^th version of the event in John Paul Jones Arena on the University of Virginia campus.

Friday the Rockets knocked off the Bulls (87-64) and then the Heat (83-76) to remain the only unbeaten squad among the 10 camp teams.

Rondo got a terrific offensive performances from junior-to-be forward Jeremiah Robinson-Earl (Shawnee Mission, KS, Bishop Miege) as he also got from Class of 2018 shooting guards Joseph Wieskamp (Muscatine, IA, High) and Anferne Simons (Orlando, FL, Edgewater).

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The 24^th National Basketball Players’ Association Top 100 Camp reached its midpoint following the conclusion of the Thursday evening session of games in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.

And, two days and 20 games into the event, there shouldn’t be much debate as to who the individual standout has been.

Six-foot-nine Simisola Shittu (Burlington in Ontario, Canada by way of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, VT) was the NBPA Top 100 Most Outstanding player on Wednesday and it was much of the same based upon his two games with the “Warriors” squad Thursday.

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