Junior guard Jade Thomas announced in October her commitment to UNLV, where she will join her sister Bailey, who transferred last year from West Virginia to play for the Rebels. Sam is a sophomore wing at Arizona.
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Sam Gordon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is back for his second stint with the Review-Journal. He’s covered the NFL, NBA, the Big Ten, the Mountain West and prep sports for various publications during his professional tenure. Gordon, a University of Minnesota graduate, is a basketball junkie who coached high school basketball for three seasons.
Durango junior point guard Anthony Hunter has nine Division I scholarship offers while averaging 22.5 points this season for the Trailblazers.
The Grizzlies won the Gator Winter Classic’s diamond bracket championship for the second consecutive year with a 66-54 victory over Dimond (Alaska) on Saturday at Green Valley.
Spring Valley went on an 11-2 run midway through the second quarter Thursday and made a series of defensive stops and free throws in the final minutes to secure a 44-40 victory over West Anchorage (Alaska).
The Foothill girls basketball team opened the Gator Winter Classic with a 61-32 win over Silverado in the morning and finished its first day of pool play with a 55-29 victory over Boulder City in the afternoon.
Julian Strawther will represent Puerto Rico on its junior national team this summer at the under-17 Caribbean Championships and under-19 FIBA World Cup. His late mother was Puerto Rican.
The host Bulldogs, ranked No. 21 nationally by USA Today, cruised to an 86-48 victory over West High School (California) on Saturday to win the tournament title.
Haywood Highsmith, 22, came to Delaware by way of Wheeling Jesuit, a Division II University nestled in Wheeling, Western Virginia — population 27,066.
Bishop Gorman jumped on Rancho Christian (California) early and coasted to a 61-39 victory Saturday in the championship game of the Tarkanian Classic.
Soon-to-be G League president Shareef Abdur-Rahim spoke to the Review-Journal about the NBA’s commitment to Las Vegas, his vision for the G League and the implementation of select contracts for elite high school players.
Twenty-five NBA Academy attendees scrimmaged Friday at Mandalay Bay in what for many of the prospects was a debut under the literal and metaphorical bright lights after months of training at facilities around the world.
Travis Trice, a 25-year-old G League veteran, played four games this year for the men’s national team and helped the Americans qualify for the 18th FIBA Basketball World Cup, which runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 15 in China.
Iowa Wolves forward Hakim Warrick hasn’t played in the NBA since the 2012-13 season, but he’s attempting a comeback in the G League with the Wolves, for whom he’s played 18 games this season.
Former Desert Pines wide receiver Jaden Mitchell tore his ACL in August in the first game of his senior season and was forced to grayshirt. But Arizona honored his commitment and its scholarship offer.
Dan Barnson stepped down as Arbor View High School’s football coach after 12 seasons in which his teams compiled a 104-33 record.