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By MIKE McCURRY Following a January 21 loss
By JACOB POLACHECK
Lamelo Ball, the 6-foot Class of 2019 point guard from Chino Hills (CA) High School, scored 92 points in a 146-123 victory over Los Osos (CA) High School on Tuesday.
Ball, the younger brother of UCLA freshman point guard Lonzo Ball and Chino Hills senior guard Liangelo Ball, went 37-of-61 shooting, 7-of-22 from three-point range, with 7 assists and 5 rebounds. He also went 11-14 from the free throw line.
ESPN’s Myron Medcalf reported that Ball was motivated by a sick girl at his high school, but Los Osos coach Dave Smith wasn’t pleased.
“That’s wrong,” he told the Los Angeles Times. “It goes against everything CIF stands for. The Ball boys are very talented and great players, but it’s embarrassing to high school athletics.”
Lonzo Ball is projected by DraftExpress to be the No. 2 pick in the 2017 NBA Draft, and the brothers are not expected to play together at UCLA. Bruins coach Steve Alford said in December that Lonzo is “absolutely” one-and-done.
All LaMelo Ball knows is #SWISH ? @MELOD1P pic.twitter.com/LVgKZkh8SR
— Overtime (@overtime) February 8, 2017
Chino Hills was coming off its first loss of the season on Saturday as they had their 60-game winning streak snapped by Oak Hill (VA) Academy. With their win Tuesday Chino Hills brought their record to 26-1.
Ahead of the big North Carolina-Duke game
Pete Vasil, a veteran New Jersey high school boys basketball coach, will take over at Paterson Eastside in the wake of the school scandal.
Vasil, 54, will coach the Ghosts during practice Wednesday and will then coach against Wayne Hills on Thursday night at 7 p.m.
Shaniqua Bacote, a former Passaic Tech and Bloomfield College player, was officially named the team’s head coach on Tuesday, but will serve as an assistant to Vasil, who is technically a volunteer coach. Vasil met Tuesday with Eastside principal Zatiti Moody and AD Gregory Cooper.
Vasil, a Worcester, Mass., native, who previously coached at Bloomfield Tech, Plainfield and Clifton and has a career record of 196-175, replaces Juan Griles, who was suspended on Monday after NJ Advance Media published an investigation revealing Griles had as many as six overseas players living with him.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) and the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) announced the top 67 boys and girls from 32 countries and territories who will travel to New Orleans for the third annual Basketball without Borders (BWB) Global Camp. The camp will be held Feb. 17-19 at the New Orleans Pelicans’ practice facility as part of NBA All-Star 2017, and Nike will serve as the official partner.
NBA and FIBA players and coaches, including Cheick Diallo (New Orleans Pelicans; Mali), Wayne Ellington (Miami Heat; U.S.), Justin Holiday (New York Knicks; U.S.), Meyers Leonard (Portland Trail Blazers; U.S.), Thon Maker (Milwaukee Bucks; South Sudan; BWB Americas 2015/BWB Global 2016) and Emmanuel Mudiay (Denver Nuggets; Democratic Republic of the Congo), will coach the top high school age campers from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.
Diallo, Ellington, Holiday, Leonard, Maker and Mudiay will be joined by former NBA player Adonal Foyle (St. Vincent and the Grenadines), former WNBA players Rushia Brown (U.S.), Ebony Hoffman (U.S.) and Ruth Riley (U.S.), as well as select players from the BBVA Compass Rising Stars Challenge.
