UCLA's new basketball players

UCLA’s new basketball players

By Ben Bolch

April 12, 2012 12 AM PT

Name; Pos.; Ht.; Wt.; Previous school; Comment

Jordan Adams; SG; 6-5; 205; Mouth of Wilson (Va.) Oak Hill Academy; One of the top perimeter shooting prospects in the country should boost Bruins’ three-point accuracy.

Kyle Anderson; PG; 6-8; 215; Jersey City (N.J.) St. Anthony; A versatile talent who can play the one to the four but will probably utilize exceptional basketball IQ as starting point guard.

*Larry Drew II; PG; 6-2; 180; North Carolina; Played two full seasons and part of a third for Tar Heels. Was City Section player of the year at Woodland Hills Taft High.

Shabazz Muhammad; SG/SF; 6-5; 207; Las Vegas Bishop Gorman; Widely considered one of the top players in the country, the swingman could spearhead a big turnaround for Bruins.

*Redshirted last season after transferring.

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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