Posted Saturday, August 8th, 2009
Hillside School’s Johnnie Vassar reportedly played some terrific basketball last week at the Hoop Group Junior Elite Camp, which featured many of the top young players from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Vassar was named to the NBA All-Star team where he was joined by one of his future teammates at Hillside, 5’7” point guard Carlton Carter. Vassar culminated his strong week by not only being selected to the All-Star game but then also thriving in it with a…
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Posted Saturday, August 8th, 2009
In the last week of July both the Boston Warriors u17 team and their u12 team earned medals at national AAU tournaments. The 17’s took the title in the copper bracket of the AU Super Showcase in Orlando, Florida, while just four days earlier the Warriors 12’s won the classic bracket at the Division II AAU Nationals. The u17 Boston Warriors North team headed to the Super Showcase riding a wave of momentum after a strong performance at the Summer…
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Posted Friday, August 7th, 2009
Worcester Academy Gets Two Worcester Academy has added two local pieces to next year’s team. Canaan Severin, who played at Marlboro High School for the past two years, and Russel Deremer, who graduated from St. Andrew’s (RI), will both be heading to the NEPSAC Class A school next month. Severin is a very athletic wing player who gets out in transition, attacks the rim hard with his dribble, and has already developed the reputation as a defensive stopper. He will…
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Posted Thursday, August 6th, 2009
The Hartford Pro-Am is always one of the strongest leagues in New England. Year in and year out it features a collection of current college and professional players as well as a variety of former stars of the hardwood. This year some of the top players include: Minnesota Timberwolves forward Ryan Gomes; Jared Jordan (Marist), Tyson Wheeler (URI), Mike Trimboli (Vermont), Mickel Gladness (Alabama A&M) and Durelle Brown who all play professionally overseas; current UConn products Jerome Dyson, Ater Majok,…
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Posted Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kyle Anderson’s New Jersey Playaz won the u17 north division championship at the Summer in the City Tournament, spoiling a potential sweep for New Heights who claimed titles in the other three brackets. The Playaz have had a very impressive spring and summer. This long time winning AAU program showed tremendously well at the Boo Williams Tournament in Virginia, the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions in North Carolina, as well as the Pittsburgh Jam Fest. The Playaz have been a…
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Posted Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Five Star Basketball has just concluded it's second session at Springfield College held August 2-5. The talent level of the Springfield Session 2 certainly surpassed that of the first session in July as there were players on hand from Virginia to Chicago and even as far as Germany. The New Englanders who stood out include: Andre King (6-1, G, Sabis Charter) - Rising Senior / 2010 - King has a college ready body, and a quickly expanding skill set. While known…
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Posted Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Dino Mallios is heading to St. Anselm’s College on a full scholarship. Mallios committed to head coach Keith Dickson and the NE-10 program just after the first half of the live period, after having been followed by the Hawks coaching staff for the better part of the summer. “They started looking at me because my uncle played with Coach Dickson at UNH and he told them about me,” Mallios said. “I think the first game they saw was in the…
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Posted Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Running a basketball event can be time consuming and nerve racking, not to mention when you're also trying to coach two of the top teams in the event. Matthew Pauls of New Jersey ABC showed he could do both when he co-sponsered the first ever Summer in the City event and also put a two top tier teams on the floor to compete. Team NJABC capped a summer where their combined 16 and 17 year old teams posted a 26-5…
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Posted Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Alex Murphy and Ricardo Ledo, two of the best rising sophomores in New England and beyond, attended the University of Florida’s Elite Camp last weekend. Alex’s older brother Erik Murphy will be a freshman next season for head coach Billy Donovan and was on campus for the camp along with many of the other players from next year’s team. Also on hand were former Gator products and current NBA players Joakim Noah, Taureen Green, Mike Miller, Matt Bonner, and Al…
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Posted Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
The Adidas Nations Basketball Experience is the culmination of the Adidas Nations program which brings together some of the top young (18 and under) players from around the world. Over the course of the year the Adidas Nations program has conducted regional training here in the United States as well as in Africa, Asia, Canada, Europe, and Latin America. This week the best players from all seven of those areas (two United States teams) come together in Dallas, Texas for…
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