Nike Hoop Summit
What: Annual basketball game between the USA Basketball men's junior national select team (made up of high school seniors) and a world select team (made up of international players 19 years old or younger).
When/where: 7 p.m. Saturday, Rose Garden. The game is making its second consecutive appearance in Portland.
Who: Each team has 10 players on its roster. Among the U.S. players is Mike Moser of Grant High School in Northeast Portland. Moser is a 6-foot-8 forward who has signed with UCLA. Nine of the top-25-ranked seniors are on the U.S. roster.
Alumni: Four alumni of the Nike Hoop Summit are on the Portland Trail Blazers roster: Martell Webster (2005) and Jerry Bayless (2007) played for the United States, and Sergio Rodriguez (2004) and Nicolas Batum (2007) played for the World team.
Another game of interest: Two U.S. team members took Monday's NCAA championship basketball a little more personally than most. John Henson, a 6-foot-9 forward from Tampa, Fla., and Leslie McDonald, a 6-4 guard from Memphis, Tenn., are in North Carolina's 2009 recruiting class. The Tar Heels beat Michigan State 89-72 for the men's Division I championship.
Teammates now, Southland opponents later: Grant's Moser is joined on the U.S. team by Renardo Sidney from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles. Sidney has orally committed to USC. Another U.S. team player, Abdul Gaddy of Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, is headed to a Pacific-10 Conference team -- Washington.
Tickets: Available from the Rose Quarter ticket office, by phone (877-789-7673) and online at www.rosequarter.com.
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