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LOS ANGELES – All in all, I’d consider Day II of the 27^th Nike Fairfax Summer Classic a “bookends” sort-of deal.

Games II&III on Tuesday were – and there is no other way to put this politely – “lopsided” affairs.

But the contests that began – and ended – the second day of competition during the six-day event were nothing short of entertaining.

First up, the games whose outcomes were achieved without much in the way of muss or fuss:

*The host Lions, minus Head Coach Harvey Kitani (he’s working Chris Paul’s camp), rolled past La Canada, 66-49.

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LOS ANGELES — The Nike-Fairfax High Summer Classic may not quite have lived up to the latter part of its name on the opening of the 27th version of the event Monday night.

But, all in all, one would be hard-pressed to find high school hoops games as entertaining – and as relatively well-played – in the summer as were the four contests played three weeks and two days into June.

Three squads that could go into next season ranked about the five best in the CIF Southern Section joined the Woodland Hills El Camino Real Conquistadors (with four starters on hand from the club that lost to Westchester in the L.A.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – Aaron Gordon and Billy Donovan had reactions unlike the majority of those who follow college basketball did immediately after it was reported on April 16 that Marcus Smart was going to play a sophomore season at Oklahoma State.

The wide-spread assumption was that the 6-foot-4, 220-pound point guard, after earning Big 12 Conference Player of the Year and All-American honors for his fabulous freshman performance in Stillwater, was going wrap his arms around the opportunity to be among top five or so selections in the June 27 NBA Draft.

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COLORADO SPRINGS – USA Under-19 Coach Billy Donovan said Monday afternoon that he wanted to take a team to Prague that “can really pressure people all over the court, defensively.”

When USA Basketball announced the final 12-player roster Monday night after seven practices over four days, the University of Florida’s coach’s wishes appeared granted.

Five of those selections – guards Marcus Smart (Oklahoma State) and Rasheed Sulaimon (Duke), as well as frontcourt players Jarnell Stokes (Tennessee), Jerami Grant (Syracuse) and Montrezl Harrell (Louisville) – played for Donovan during the USA Under-18 squad run to gold during the 2012 FIBA Championships last June in Brazil.

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – The 20^th NBA Players Association Top 100 Camp’s competition  wrapped up Saturday evening with a championship game between the teams that had rolled to semifinal victories a couple of hours earlier.

And, ultimately, it was the Celtics that did the rolling in the finale, cruising past the Mavericks, 81-67, in the John Paul Jones Arena on the University of Virginia campus.

Ja’Quan Newton, a 6-foot-2 senior-to-be at Philadelphia’s Neumann-Goretti High, scored a camp-best 32 points – often while another top 2014 PG, Josh Perkins (from Aurora in Colorado but bound for Huntington Prep in West Virginia), was attempting to defend him – to lead the Celtics, who wrapped up their competition 7 and zip.

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