NBA Announces NLSC Academy All Star Game
Hours ago, NBA Commissioner David Stern announced on ESPN that the NBA’s high school affiliates will mix players and host an all star game each year, with the host academy’s varsity players guaranteed to be on the team. “Every year we will be rotating the host city around, this year it will be hosted in the NLSC North American Academy, and the game will be played in New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Next year it will most likely be in Brisbane, Australia, but we are not sure at the moment.” Said Stern.
As said earlier, all the players form the host academy will make the team, and then 8 more players will be chosen from other academies, though as this year showed, not every academy will be represented.
Team Gold
Jing Xu* – Tri Captain of NLSC North America, extremely tough, plays anywhere from Point Guard to Center. Good shooting touch from downtown.
Nicky Fasz* – French guard is the fastest amongst NLSC Academy players, great slasher, defensive lockdown master. Though height sometimes is a disadvantage inside the paint.
Sam Anurak* – Great player out of Canada, another one of the tri captains of NLSC North America. Great court vision, fearless, extremely tough and can finish almost anywhere.
Alex Buckley – Raw talent, though a good 3 point shooter. Needs to still work on toughness and defense.
Mart Lepik – Estonian player played well at the power forward position, he blocked well and finished inside. Still have some problems with finishing inside the paint because he is so skinny, strength needs to be worked on.
Zac Mousoulis – A tough as nail youngster hailing from Australia. This kid is a pretty good force down in the paint, can finish and rebound.
Ben Branch* – Captain of the Australian team, basically he can do it all. Most experienced and perhaps best player amongst all NLSC players.
Mikki Dela Rea* – Almost unheard of talent from the Philippines until he arrived in China. Played well when he has good teammates. Is a co-captain on the Asia team, good defense, leads all of Academy in steals and fast break points.
Team Blue
Nithin Kadayil* – The high flyer. He can jump out of the gym, and his shooting is not bad as well. But he sometime lacks self control and doesn’t see open players.
Desmond Jackson* – last tri captain of the North America team. He will be the closest guy to Branch. He is also a do-it-all type of player, with the ability to dunk, slash, shoot the long shot, as well as play defense.
Peter Robertson* – great rebounder from Canada, fierce on defense. Very versatile, currently leads North American in scoring.
Sam Keon – great role player, very hard worker and blocker. Amazing good touch from beyond 15 feet.
Casey Vitelli – last man on the North America varsity team, a great three pointer shooter, but not much else.
Heigo Randma* – touch man up front from Europe, gives the strength and toughness that Mart Lepik does not have. Warrior inside the paint.
Will Sit* – Small point guard, super speedy, good touch, and very nice playmaking skills.
Robert Skrnjug – big and unproved, extremely raw, but showed great improvement in his lasts couple summer games in Australia, and thus was chosen. Also replaces South American player Andres “Drex” Muñoz, who tore his ACL a week ago.... calling a timeout (honoring honor glow )
* - denotes starter