Christmas Day is a big day for the NBA so we thought it would be fun to create a trivia quiz for our users to enjoy. We did this one thinking about recently departed McClymonds of Oakland stars Bill Russell and Paul Silas. But there’s also plenty to be happy about, including the Brooklyn Nets […]
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Eleven from CA on NBA 75th Team
The highlight of the 2022 NBA All-Star Weekend two weeks ago was the celebration of the all-time best players throughout the 75 years of the league. The NBA named and honored the players, but they weren’t ranked in any particular order. There were 11 from California high schools who were presented. Here’s our ranking of […]
California’s NBA All-Star Alumni
Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors, who scored 37 points to lead Santa Margarita to a CIF D3 state title, became the 50th player from a California high school who has been selected to an NBA all-star team in 2015. In honor of that total, we decided to start a new NBA All-Star Alumni […]
All-Time All-Section/All-County Teams (Boys Basketball Part 4)
This is the final installment of a series checking out the all-time best players from California’s CIF sections plus select counties and regions in boys basketball. We’re ending with the CIF North Coast Section, CIF San Francisco Section and the Inland Empire area of the CIF Southern Section. All three teams feature at least one...
Boys BB: State 30 Greatest Teams (1-15)
It had to be one of the undefeated teams from McClymonds of Oakland between 1958 and 1962 or one of the two unbeatens from Compton (1968, 1969) sitting at the top of these rankings. We also felt strongly about putting the two 35-0 teams from the CIF state championship era (which began in 1980) way...
Top 25 Boys Hoops Players We’ve Seen
This list is different than the top 50 we just did of the best football players we’ve seen in our more than 40 years of doing Cal-Hi Sports in various platforms. It’s different because it’s the top 25 of our longtime boys basketball analyst and Southern California grassroots regular Ronnie Flores and also a different […]
ALL Boys Hoops State Records Updated
FOR ALL OF THE BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM STATE RECORDS, CLICK HERE. It took a couple of days, but all of the exclusive state boys basketball records on this site have now been completely updated with approximately four times the categories as before, including individual all-time leaders for scoring, free throw shooting, three-pointers, rebounds, assists, steals,...
Boys BB: CA’s All-Time Best Honor Roll
In addition to state records in various sports, we have also maintained alumni lists of those from California high schools who’ve collected major awards and honors for college and the pros. For boys basketball, we have Hall of Fame members, U.S. Olympic Team members, first and second team All-NBA players, college players of the year […]
State’s Top 25 NBA Player Rankings
After conclusion of the 2019 NBA playoffs, we present our picks of the top 25 players from California high schools. This list had to be revised quite a bit from the first time we did it after Kahwi Leonard of M.L. King (Riverside) led the Toronto Raptors to the NBA title. Kahwi of course also […]