After four days and four nights, it's finally here: The final day of play during the three national high school-aged boys travel teams in Las Vegas.
Today's (Saturday's) action:
*The semifinals of the Main Event (Spring Valley High) have just one team from Southern California in action, after the L.A. Team Odom (including the Jordan Hamilton-led horde of Dominguez players) was eliminated by a team from Dallas Friday night.
And that from SoCal is the California Supreme, which won four games Friday and takes on the Chicago-based Mac Irvin Fire at 9 a.m.
California supreme is led by juniors-to-be in guard Gary Franklin (Mater Dei) and center (San Diego High).
*There are no Southern California teams remaining in the Reebok Summer Championships (Foothill High in Henderson) after the L.A. Dream Team, Belmont Shore and Inland (from the Inland Empire) were knocked off in the playoffs on Friday.
The highlight of today's quarterfinals has the Northwest Panthers (Tacoma, Wash.) taking on Team Breakdown (Plantation, Fla.) in a rematch of a "mini-tournament" game on Tuesday morning won by the Florida squad. The hooks is the backcourt battle of Avery Bradley and Abdul Gaddy (Northwest) vs. their TB counterparts (Kenny Boynton and Avery Bradley).
*The Pump 'N Run Elite team, with its plethora of Southern California standouts, is taking on Grassroots Canada Elite at 1 o'clock in the main gym at Rancho High in North Las Vegas in an adidas Super 64 semifinal.
Another SoCal Club, the Compton Magic (led by players from Santa Barbara and Hemet, and not Compton, by the way), faces the Atlanta Celtics at 1 in the auxilary gym (next door) in the other semi.
If there was only a way I could clone myself three ways . . .
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