It's gotta be the...hair?
I was playing basketball at the 24 Hour Fitness in Rancho Cucamonga last night when I noticed a familiar looking player waiting to get in the game. The young, frail looking guy was sporting an unofficial Etiwanda High School basketball T-shirt (the one the team wore in warm-ups for the CIF-SS championship game last season; it says "NO SCHNACKS," which I'm still trying to entirely figure out).
The guy couldn't have been out of high school long, but I couldn't place him on either of the Etiwanda teams I've covered since arriving in Southern California two years ago. I figured he might have been an obscure bench player that slipped from my consciousness - until I saw him play.
It was the hair that threw me off. Darren Collison just didn't look the same sporting a jheri-curl flat top, for lack of a much, much better term. But there was no confusing the UCLA point guard's game.
Collison, a rising senior at UCLA and Etiwanda class of 2005, distinguished himself in the pick-up game of surprisingly high quality (don't worry, I was playing on the other court).
Now, if he can just work on the quality of that hair cut.
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Clay Fowler has been covering high school sports for six years in California and Texas. He was born in Dallas, attended the University of Texas and worked in Central Texas before joining the Daily Bulletin staff in 2006.
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Clay the NO SCHNACKS that you didnt know much about is the team that Darren plays on in the say no summer league which is a college summer league at Cal Poly Pomona on saturdays and sundays. Here is the website: http://www.saynoclassic.com/index.html
Clay...it's "NO SHNACKS" notice there is no "C" before the "H" it's "NO SHNACKS" BY THE WAY,ITS MORE THAN JUST AN ETIWANDA THING! THE SPELLING IS IMPORTANT. HOW DO I KNOW...? I MADE IT UP! I LOVE YOUR ARTICLES CLAY, KEEP IT UP!