News Bits
Semetri Carr: "Blessed to receive an offer from Creighton University. Thank you to coach Zeigler and the entire coaching staff for believing in me!"
A point, Carr is already loaded with offers and more will come once he gets into his final high school season at Archbishop Riordan. Let's see if he can land a high major. Stanford is one of his official suitors and it sure seems like that would be hard to turn down since Coach Kyle Smith is getting that program healthy and the Cardinal now play in the ACC.
More on Carr as you scroll down.
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Los Medanos MBB: "Congratulations to sophomore guard Devin Carson on earning a full-ride scholarship to Vanguard University in Costa Mesa, California!"
Carson is a sharpshooting 6-foot-3 sophomore guard out of Deer Valley High.
Vanguard offered in March and is transitioning from NAIA to NCAA D2 to join the PacWest Conference.
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Los Medanos MBB: "Congratulations to sophomore forward Vinny Andrea on his commitment to Whittier College in Whittier, California!"
Andrea is a 6-foot-6 wing/forward out of Heritage High.
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"Jordan Ford Signs With Italian Club"
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"Raptors’ Mogbo fulfils NBA dream after taking unconventional path"
Josh Lewenburg goes longform on former USF forward Jonathan Mogbo. A great read.
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Simply Basketball: "Luke Isaak (2025) earns Co-MVP honors at Las Vegas Big Time. Showed his ability to play PG and led JalenGreenElite to a 17u Invite Championship."
The 6-foot-3 Isaak attends San Ramon Valley High.
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From a Rory Maher article: "I really like the addition of Delon Wright. Anyone who watched him shut down Darius Garland — a very difficult player to stay in front of — a couple years ago in Atlanta’s play-in victory over Cleveland can attest to Wright’s ability to defend. He is consistently among the very best guards in the league defensively.
Wright earned between $7.8MM-$9.5MM annually from 2019-2024, so he also took a major pay cut by joining the Bucks — that was less surprising than Trent’s pay cut, however, given that Wright agreed to a buyout with Washington last season in order to sign with Miami for a prorated version of the minimum.
Wright has never been a particularly eager scorer, but the Bucks don’t need him to be — he just needs to hit enough shots to keep defenses honest. He is a solid rebounder, passer and play-maker who takes exceptionally good care of the ball — he had 119 assists and 14 turnovers in 2023/24, an assist-to-turnover ratio of 8.4-to-1. That was an outlier in part due to his low usage, but he was at 4.4-to-1 and 4.2-to-1 the previous two seasons, among the best marks in the league. Wright’s teams have consistently been better when he’s on the court, largely due to his defense..."
Wright is out of City College San Francisco.
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"Introducing the 2024-25 Incoming Class for Saint Mary’s Men’s Basketball"
Coach Randy Bennett has three new forwards and three new guards coming to Moraga.
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Semetri Carr: "Thankful to receive an offer from University of San Francisco. Thank you to Coach Gerlufsen and the entire staff."
The 6-foot-1 Carr is a 2025 talent who will be at Archbishop Riordan this year.
Could see this one happening but have no idea about the size of USF's NLI moneypot.
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Mikey Ballout: "I’m extremely humbled to say I have been selected and will represent Lebanon in the u18 Asia Cup this September."
The 2025 Ballout stands 6-foot-3 and attends Serra High.
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Shanku Nair: "'25 Chase Rawlins is one of the best passers I've seen at 6'6. Processing speed, floor scanning, manipulation in his bag. Really fluid movement skills + tight handle to touch the paint and create advantages. Could see him playing the 1 at a D1. Added shooting+strength will be key."
Rawlins attends Folsom High and plays AAU 'ball for the Rose City Ballers.
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Joe Tipton: "NEWS: 2025 Top-25 prospect Xavion Staton has cut his list to six schools..."
Stanford is among the sextet for the 7-foot 2025 talent.
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"...will join Jamaree Bouyea as the Spurs’ two-way players for now..."
Out of Palma High and USF, it look like the 6-foot-2 Bouyea will juggle between playing at the point for San Antonio and the Austin Spurs, San Antonio's G League team.
FYI: Chris Paul is ancient but now with San Antonio at the point for likely one season and new first round draftee Stephon Castle is being groomed to play at the point. Where that leaves Bouyea remains to be witnessed.
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Australia topped Spain 92-80 in the opening round of men's basketball in the Olympics aided by Jock (St. Mary's/Houston Rockets) Landale's 20 points )9-14 shooting) , nine boards and five assists plus 19 points (6-12 shooting) from Patty (St. Mary's/Miami Heat) Mills.
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A player report on the The NCAA Basketball Academy event contained this: "Max VanLaningham, PF, 2026- We had the opportunity to see VanLaningham play a couple of times and each time his motor was an immediate reason to notice him. A mobile four man who has some skill facing the rim, VanLaningham also played with toughness, took pride on the defensive end and looks like a dude who has some upside to expand his offensive game even more. Idaho, Montana and Portland have extended early offers."
He attends Woodcreek High and plays AAU 'ball with Team Lillard.
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Jose Medrano Gutierrez has committed to Hartnell College. He's a 6-footer out the East Palo Alto Academy.
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6-foot-3 Monterey High guard Suheib Ibrahim has committed to Hartnell College. He earned offers from Pacific University (OR), University of Redlands and was named his division's Defensive Player of the Year.
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