The Thunderbirds of Highline College are taking a break over Thanksgiving. Most of the players went home to be with their families. Desmond Hudson did not go home, because he doesn’t have a home to go to.
Basketball
Rap and hip-hop mogul Percy “Master P” Miller envisions a basketball league in which men and women will compete against each other.
After graduating from Stanford, Centennial High’s Malcolm Allen signs to play for fellow Las Vegan Jack Murphy on the Northern Arizona basketball team.
Marcus Banks, mostly known for defense during his NBA career, now wants to be known as a father to his children.
Calvary Chapel Christian School hires disgraced Dave Bliss to coach basketball despite his involvement in one of college basketball’s most tragic scandals.
Jimmer Fredette will coach a team of former Mountain West Conference stars in The Basketball Tournament on Saturday and Sunday at Desert Oasis High School.
It might be a stretch to believe Golden State’s rise to NBA greatness was a carryover from the Summer League Warriors’ success, but that’s what happened.
In 2015, when he started 35 games of the 41 he played for the Knicks, former UNLV basketball player Lou Amundson became the 12th player in NBA history to perform for 10 teams.
A Las Vegas man recently spent $1,500 to take his family to see Cleveland play the Clippers in Los Angeles, only to have the Cavaliers rest star players LeBron James, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love.
An NCAA representative dismissed a proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, despite abysmal attendance at this year’s regionals.
Paul Son-Dice of Las Vegas, led by former UNLV Rebels Armon Gilliam, Sudden Sam Smith and Greg Goorjian, won the 1984 AAU men’s national basketball championship on home turf.
Rich Lupcho, a Las Vegas graveyard shift bartender, was one of the guys who passed the basketball to prolific Pete Maravich at Louisiana State.
Former North Carolina State star Thurl Bailey never gets tired talking about the Wolfpack’s upset of Houston in the 1983 NCAA championship basketball game.
Former UNLV interim coach Todd Simon, Durango High equipment manager Jack Murphy share coaching stage as Southern Utah knocks off Northern Arizona.
Dexter Irvin, director of athletics at College of Southern Nevada, will start raising money to reinstate men’s and women’s junior college basketball at the Henderson campus.