What a fantastic event Boost Mobile and Under Armor help in Venice Beach last Saturday. The organization and look of it all were meticulous and the competition was at its best. Big thank you to the elite 24 for donating brand new rims and backboards.
August 29, 2010 – CORRECTED BOX SCORE
Preps Shine During 2010 Boost Mobile Elite Event
Raymond Lewis Squad Defeats Marques Johnson Squad at Venice Beach
Kyle Wiltjer, Myck Kabongo, Austin Rivers and James Mcadoo Co-MVPs
Quddus Bello and Bradley Beal Win Under Armour Slam Dunk & Skills Competitions
ESPN RISE hosted the fifth annual Boost Mobile Elite 24 event this weekend at the Venice Beach Basketball Courts, in Venice Beach, Calif. The event, launched in 2006 at New York’s Rucker Park, featured 24 of the nation’s top high school basketball players in the Under Armour Slam Dunk & Skills Competitions, Fri., Aug. 27 and the Boost Mobile Elite 24 game on Sat., Aug. 28. The Boost Mobile Elite 24 event was televised live on ESPNU HD and will re-air Monday, Aug. 30, 10:00 p.m. EDT and Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1:00 p.m. EDT, both on ESPNU.
The Raymond Lewis Squad, coached by high school coach Reggie Morris, Jr. and the Wizards’ John Wall, defeated the Marques Johnson Squad, coached by Derrick Taylor and the Bucks’ Brandon Jennings 131 to 128 in a fight to the finish. Standouts on the winning squad included Myck Kabongo, who had a double-double, and the team’s high scorers Kyle Wiltjer and Kentavioius Caldwell-Pope who both had 20 points. Kabongo and Wiltjer were the winning team’s co-MVPs, along with the loosing team’s Austin Rivers and James Mcadoo, who also had a double-double. Wiltjer verbally committed to Kentucky during the live telecast.
Quddus Bello and Bradley Beal won the Under Armour Slam Dunk & Skills Competitions, respectively. The slam dunk contest was judged by Boost Mobile Elite 24 alums John Wall, Brandon Jennings and Tyreke Evans.
The Boost Mobile Elite 24’s telecast featured host Eamon McAnaney, ESPN Analyst Jay Williams, and Bobbito Garcia a.k.a. Kool Bob Love; Garcia was the first Hispanic to call basketball play-by-play in English on ESPN’s networks.
2010 Boost Mobile Elite 24 Teams:
Raymond Lewis Squad
Head Coach: Reggie Morris, Jr.
Assistant Coaches: John Wall
Name
High School
Pos.
TP
TR
AST
Bradley Beal
Chaminade College Prep School (St. Louis, Mo.)
SG
8
3
0
DeAndre Daniels
Taft High School (Woodland Hills, Calif.)
SF
13
2
2
Jahii Carson
Mesa High School (Phoenix, Az.)
PG
8
2
3
Johnny O’Bryant
East Side High School (Cleveland, Miss.)
C
7
7
0
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Greenville High School (Greenville, Ga.)
SG
20
4
1
Kyle Wiltjer
Jesuit (Portland, Ore.)
PF
20
4
2
Michael Gbinije
Benedictine (Richmond, Va.)
SF
4
1
2
Myck Kabongo
Findlay Prep (Las Vegas, N.V.)
PG
13
4
10
Quddus Bello
Westchester Country Day School (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
SG
12
4
3
Quincy Miller
Westchester Country Day School (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
PF
11
4
3
Rakeem Christmas
Academy of the New Church (Brynn Athyn, Pa.)
PF
7
5
2
Shabazz Muhammad
Bishop Gorman (Las Vegas, Nev.)
SG
8
1
0
131
47
28
Marques Johnson Squad
Head Coach: Derrick Taylor
Assistant Coaches: Brandon Jennings
Name
High School
Pos.
TP
TR
AST
Adonis Thomas
Melrose High School (Memphis, Tenn.)
SF
12
2
2
Alex Murphy
St. Mark’s School (Southborough, Mass.)
SF
9
0
0
Amir Garrett
Findlay Prep (Las Vegas, N.V.)
SF
8
2
2
Austin Rivers
Winter Park (Winter Park, Fla.)
PG
15
5
4
DaJuan Coleman
Jamesville-DeWitt High School (DeWitt, N.Y.)
C
12
5
0
Jabari Brown
Oakland High School (Oakland, Calif.)
SG
16
1
1
James McAdoo
Norfolk Christian (Norfolk, Va.)
PF
10
11
0
LaQuinton Ross
Life Center Academy (Burlington, N.J.)
SF
14
2
0
LeBryan Nash
Lincoln High School (Dallas, Texas)
SF
12
2
1
Nick Johnson
Findlay Prep (Las Vegas, N.V.)
SG
16
2
3
128
46
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Boost Mobile Elite 24 participants are selected by high school basketball experts from ESPN RISE, ESPN College Basketball Recruiting and other leading talent evaluators. Players were selected based on their performances at AAU tournaments and national summer camps. Boost Mobile Elite 24 player participation is strictly determined by parental/legal guardian permission, and high school and state association guidelines.
Event sponsors included: Boost Mobile, title sponsor; Under Armour, apparel and slam dunk content; Wilson, basketballs and Gatorade, hydration.
About Boost Mobile Elite 24
Launched in 2006 by RISE Magazine, the Boost Mobile Elite 24 is the only basketball event in the country to feature the top 24 high school male basketball players regardless of class year or shoe affiliation. Launched and played in New York’s famed Rucker Park its first four years and moved to Los Angles’ Venice Beach in its fifth year, Boost Mobile Elite 24 touts alumni that include NBA rookies John Wall, Lance Stephenson and Derrick Favors, NBA players Tyreke Evans, Jerryd Bayless, Kevin Love and Brandon Jennings, and college-bound Harrison Barnes, Kyrie Irving and Jarred Sullinger. The game has featured guest coaches that include current and former NBA stars Chauncey Billups, Kenny Anderson, Ben Gordon, Jason Kidd and Baron Davis; and its inaugural game was the subject of the documentary “Gunnin’ for that #1 Spot”, which debuted at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, and was produced by Beastie Boy Adam Yauch and his production company Oscilloscope.
About ESPN RISE
ESPN RISE represents ESPN’s commitment to engage and elevate high school athletes by providing them with recognition, resources, information and inspiration that can motivate them to improve their skills and achieve their goals to be the best athletes they can. ESPN RISE assets include ESPN RISE, GIRL, Hardwood and Gridiron magazines; ESPNRISE.com, and more than 160 high school events including Elite 11, Elite 24, ESPN RISE Games, ESPN RISE National High School Invitational, Faster to First, Area Code Baseball and Nike Combines/Nike SPARQ Mini Camps. ESPN RISE is uniquely positioned to provide high school athletes and the company’s core fans with compelling high school sports content across all ESPN platforms.
About ESPNU
ESPNU launched March 4, 2005. The 24-hour college sports television network televises more than 650 live events annually. Action includes a variety of top football and men’s and women’s basketball games, as well as Olympic sports from 26 Division I conferences. ESPNU is the destination for premier high school programming, including elite football and basketball events. The network also has a wide-ranging agreement with the NCAA for extensive coverage of 22 NCAA Championships.
ESPNU offers over 400 original studio shows, including SportsCenterU, ESPNU Recruiting Insider, The Experts, The Bracket, BCS Countdown and is the television home of ESPN Radio’s The Herd with Colin Cowherd. The brand is also available in high definition on ESPNUHD, now in over 17 million homes. In addition, ESPNU Campus Connection is a multiplatform, student-generated content initiative to enhance the network’s link to college campuses nationwide.
ESPNU has seen a dramatic increase since its inception and is now in approximately 73 million households. The network has long-term carriage agreements with all 10 of the top multichannel TV providers – Cablevision, Charter, Comcast, Cox, DirecTV (Channel 208), DISH Network (Channel 141), Mediacom, Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS TV and AT&T U-verse.
About Boost Mobile
Boost Mobile, one of Sprint’s prepaid brands, offers wireless phones and services with no long-term contracts. Boost Mobile redefines value for wireless consumers with its ‘Monthly Unlimited’ service, offering unlimited nationwide talk, text, Web, e-mail, IM and 411 for $50 per month, and with its ‘BlackBerry Monthly Unlimited’ service, offering unlimited nationwide talk, text, Web, e-mail, IM and 411 for $60 per month. Boost Mobile offers nationwide service on the Nationwide Sprint Network, reaching more than 276 million people, and on the Nextel National Network, reaching more than 277 million people, with no activation or long distance fees. Boost Mobile offers a selection of quality handsets from Motorola, Sanyo, Research In Motion (RIM) and Samsung, ranging from entry-level to high-end devices. Boost Mobile phones are available nationwide at nearly 20,000 major retail stores, including Best Buy, RadioShack, Target and Wal-mart, Sprint retail stores, independent wireless dealer locations, and on HSN, a leading TV home shopping network; and Re-Boost® is available at approximately 100,000 locations throughout the United States. Experience Boost Mobile on the Web at MySpace, Facebook and Twitter; and purchase products at www.boostmobile.com.
About Under Armour, Inc.
Under Armour® (NYSE: UA) is a leading developer, marketer, and distributor of branded performance apparel, footwear, and accessories. The brand’s moisture-wicking synthetic fabrications are engineered in many different designs and styles for wear in nearly every climate. The Company’s products are sold worldwide and worn by athletes at all levels, from youth to professional, on playing fields around the globe. The Under Armour global headquarters is in Baltimore, Maryland, with European headquarters in Amsterdam’s Olympic Stadium, and additional offices in Denver, Hong Kong, Toronto, and Guangzhou, China. For further information, please visit the Company’s website at www.underarmour.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Crystal Howard, ESPN: (212) 515-1109/(917) 805-7448 / crystal.howard@espn.com
Danielle Alvarez Babbington, Boost Mobile: (949) 748-3418 / danielle.babbington@sprint.com
Danielle Cavalli, Under Armour, Inc.: (410) 246-5768 / dcavalli@underarmour.com