Words. Jack Jensen

This past weekend, the final regular session of Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League commenced in Los Angeles. With over 40 teams from across the country converging in L.A., the event was definitely loaded with top-tier talent and competition.

Among the competitors in attendance was a pair of Kentucky commits and consensus top-3 overall prospects Mike Gilchrist and Marquis Teague. While Gilchrist’s Team Final squad looked to have more firepower on paper — a team that also featured five-star recruit Rakeem Christmas, Syracuse commit Trevor Cooney and a pair of future D-1 guys in Tyrone Johnson and Aaron Brown — Teague’s Spiece Indy Heat team managed to match their counterpart’s record with a 4-1 showing. MORE >

Words. Jack Jensen

Over the weekend, the biggest and best of the country’s AAU circuit converged in Los Angeles for the third session of Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League. With over 40 teams represented and only the EYBL finals (Nike Peach Jam) left to be played this summer, teams were definitely hungry for wins.

The event went down in much effort to the Hangar Athletic Xchange (HAX) in Hawthorne/South L.A. and ran Saturday through Monday. And the majority of the country’s big guns were represented in terms of both teams and players. Mike Gilchrist, Rakeem Christmas and Team Final were in attendance, as were Marquis Teague (Spiece Indy Heat), Boo Williams and Each 1 Teach 1 (Austin Rivers, Trevor Lacey) among others. MORE >