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Why pickup basketball matters

Just 3.3% of boys high school basketball players eventually play at the Division I level. Just 1.2% of these Division I players go on to play professionally. So what about the majority of people who do not play in college or professionally? I can’t speak for everybody, but a viable solution for most is to…
<a href="https://highschool.latimes.com/author/olundp/" target="_self">Paul Olund</a>

Paul Olund

February 20, 2015

Just 3.3% of boys high school basketball players eventually play at the Division I level. Just 1.2% of these Division I players go on to play professionally. So what about the majority of people who do not play in
college or professionally? I can’t speak for everybody, but a viable solution for
most is to play pickup basketball. Yes, pickup basketball—- competitive, yet
meaningless, unnecessarily heated, yet just as fun as an organized game.

Why pickup basketball matters

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

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Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...