Frank Burlison

LAS VEGAS — At 16-1 and 14-3, respectively, in spring Nike/EYBL competition, Team Final and Team Thad are among the favorites going into the 17s division of the July 6-9 Peach Jam in the South Carolina-Georgia border city of North Augusta.

And, after the first two days of the 21^st Pangos All-American Camp, it’s understandable why that’s the case.

*Three of the Philadelphia-based Team Team’s guards, Rob Wright (Neumann Goretti), Ahmad Nowell (Imotep) and Jalil Bethea (Archbishop Wood), are on a short list — of about 10 or so — of the best “point guard-types” in the national Class of 2024.

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LAS VEGAS — The Southern California contingent among the 100-plus players from across the country made a collective nice accounting of itself during Sunday’s opening night of the 21^st Pangos Boys Basketball All-American Camp at Bishop Gorman High.

And a trio of the 14 Southlanders came from one program.

It will come as no surprise to anyone with an inkling of what transpired during the 2022-23 season that Studio City’s Harvard-Westlake is the program that is repped like no other at the camp, which continues Monday and wraps up Tuesday afternoon.

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LONG BEACH — Key players from a couple of CIF Southern Section Open Division squads, as well as the CIF SS Division 1 champion, were among the many standouts Saturday during the Pangos Best of SoCal Spring Showcase at the Assumption Greek Orthodox Church gymnasium.

James Evans Jr. and Darrell Morris, standouts as junior for the Jeff Bryant-coached West Ranch team that was 29-3 last season, scored 34 and 23 points, respectively, in the Class of 2024 Top 20 game that wrapped up the action.

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MESA, AZ — The three West Coast Elite Under Armour Association (UAA) swept their Sunday games at the Legacy Sports Complex Sunday to end up a collective 11-3 over the weekend during Session I of the UA Next boys’ basketball circuit.

Session II — during the second and final spring “live evaluation” period permitted by the NCAA for its Division I-affiliated coaching staffs — for this weekend in South Carolina.

Six-foot-9 Xinyi Li — who helped lead St. John Bosco to the CIF Southern Section Division Open division championship game and the No.

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MESA, AZ — The West Coast Elite Under Armour Association (UAA) Southern California-based 17s squad improved to 4-0 Saturday with back-to-back victories during the second day of UA Next, Session 1, at the 16-court Legacy Sports Complex.

Six-foot-five Vyctorius Miller continued to demonstrate why he’s rated one of the top backcourt prospects in the national Class of 2024 and he and his teammates edged Indiana’s Grand Park Premier (75-71) and Tennessee’s BMaze Elite (59-39) to move on top of the UA Pool D standings.

Miller (pictured) & Co.

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