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Rosters announced for 2011 adidas Nations global experience in Los Angeles

Many of the basketball stars of tomorrow will be coming together in Los Angeles this weekend for the fifth annual adidas Nations global experience in Los Angeles.

The culmination of adidas' summer international grassroots basketball program, some of the top 18-and-under players will be in attendance for the three-day showcase and exhibitions at the HAX Athletic Club.

This year's crop of attendees includes many of the top players of the 2012 recruiting class, including Shabazz Muhammad (Bishop Gorman), Andre Drummond (St. Thomas More), Kyle Anderson (St. Anthony), Rodney Purvis (Upper Room Christian) and Kaleb Tarczeweski (Oak Hill Academy).

Tapping into the global pool of premium basketball talent, international prospects such as Emmanual Mudiay (Grace Prep/Africa), Zena Edosmwan (Harvard Westland/Africa), Steven Adams (Scots College/Asia), Wannah Bail (Trent Internationale/Latin America) and Ricardo Gathers (Riverside Academy/Latin America) will also be in attendance.

Helping the stars of tomorrow throughout the process will be a number of top collegiate players and previous adidas Nations participants who will act as counselors and mentors during the showcase, including Memphis' Will Barton, Xavier's Tu Holloway, Baylor's Perry Jones, NC State's CJ Leslie, UCLA's Reeves Nelson, Duke's Mason Plumlee, Kansas' Thomas Robinson and Ohio State's Jared Sullinger.

Following the three-day camp, the adidas Nations championship game and third pace game will be held on CSU Dominguez Hills campus at the Torodome on August 8th, with general admission tickets available for $10. Find out more information at adidasnations.com .

Check out the full 2011 adidas Nations Global Experience rosters below:

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Awaken The Sleeping Giant With Ucla Basketball Tickets

UCLA basketball tickets have long been special for many, many reasons.  When you think of sports dynasties, you think of Lombardi’s Packers, Auerbach’s Celtics, the Yankees of several eras and the Montreal Canadiens.  Wooden’s Bruins can stand up to every one of them and then some.  Listing all of the legendary players of UCLA lore would be too numerous for this forum, but rest assured that an entire wing of the Hall of Fame could be filled with UCLA alumni.

However, in recent decades, the Bruins, compared to the almost unattainable standard history had set, was not achieving at their historic levels.  They did break through for an NCAA title in 1995, but other than that, Westwood’s trophy case has not had any recent additions in recent times.  

That could all be changing right before our eyes, as the 2007 Bruins are beginning to look like the great Bruin teams of old.  They advanced all the way to the NCAA Final last year before losing a tough game to Florida, and so far this season, it looks as though they haven’t missed a beat.  There are reasons for this resurgence, and we’ll examine a couple of them below.

Ben Howland

When Howland took over at UCLA in 2003, the Bruins had officially fallen on hard times.  They had become one of those teams that always seemed to recruit well, but they were at best a hit-or-miss bubble team for the NCAA Tournament.  UCLA basketball tickets were actually quite easy to find for most games, and the Bruin faithful were down in the dumps.

Howland came aboard and instilled several things that the program had been missing.  The first element was discipline.  Howland’s teams never give a game away, and that was a hallmark of his teams at Pittsburgh before he came to Westwood.  He also put together a roster that actually played hard-nosed defense, which was not something UCLA had been known for in recent years.  There were even whispers that UCLA was “soft,” and that was unacceptable for everyone involved with the program.

The Right Kind of Talent

Under Howland, the program stopped simply chasing all the five-star recruits it could gather and began to build a team that together would become a unit that covered all the moving parts a successful squad needs.  They added scoring and athleticism, of course, but they also added defense, rebounding, guards that could dribble and distribute, and several role players who take care of all the “little” things that win games in the end but may not show up on the stat sheet.

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