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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – What seemed to have all the makings of a terrific NBPA Top 100 Camp championship game Saturday night rapidly turned into a good old-fashioned blowout in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.

The Heat zipped to a 28-point advantage at intermission before coasting to a 109-89 victory over the Rockets in the last of the 41 games played over four days and nights during the 22^nd edition of the event.

Seven of the Heat’s 11 players scored at least nine points in the finale, with Washington, D.C.,

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Day (and night) III of the 22^nd NBPA Top 100 Camp ended with one of the more entertaining 30 games played in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena since Wednesday afternoon.

The left-handed Rayshaun Hammonds (Norcross, GA) hit a running 3-pointer at the buzzer for the Spurs to send their game with the Heat into overtime Friday night.

And then, with two seconds to go in that one-minute OT, Jairus Hamilton (Concord, NC, Cannon School) dropped in another shot from behind the arc and the Spurs had an 80-77 victory.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Not surprisingly in the least, the first two days of the 22^nd NBPA Top 100 camp have produced multiple standouts.

And, during Thursday’s 10 games, two guys stood taller than anyone else among the 100-plus players in the camp that again being held in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.

It was during two of those games that Charles Bassey (San Antonio, TX, St. Anthony) turned in a couple of performances that succinctly drove home why he is the top-ranked player in the national Class of 2019.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The 22^nd National Basketball Players Association Top 100 Camp wrapped up its first complete day of on-court action Wednesday night in the University of Virginia’s John Paul Jones Arena.

And only two  of the camp’s 10 teams, the “Rockets” and “Knicks”, came out of Wednesday with 2-0 records after two rounds of play.

The Rockets and Knicks are not slated to play in the “regular season” portion of the schedule but could meet in playoff action that begins Saturday morning and is a wrap later in the evening.

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The latest edition of the Nike Elite 100 wrapped up action late Sunday morning on the Saint Louis University campus.

Actually, it could have been called the “Nike Elite 100 plus three” since there were 103 members of the national classes of 2018 and ’19 on hands – “rising” juniors and sophomores, if you will, come late summer.

The proceedings (drills, practices and games) were well-managed and all instruction from camp coaches was on-target.

Here’s a look at 18 of the players (kind of a random number) that impressed me most.

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