Boys’ Basketball: Four standouts named to USA Select Team

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The honors just keep rolling in for some of Southern California’s top basketball players.

On Tuesday, Campbell Hall‘s Jrue Holiday, Compton‘s Demar DeRozan, Riverside North‘s Malcolm Lee and Anaheim Canyon‘s Jerime Anderson were named to the 2008 USA Basketball Junior National Select Team. The team will compete at the Nike Hoop Summit in Portland, Ore., next month.

Holiday, Anderson and Lee (who have all signed with UCLA) already have plenty of experience representing their country since each of them played in the 2007 U.S. Basketball Men’s Youth Development Festival. The USC-bound DeRozan competed in the Nike Global Challenge last year.

Holiday, Lee and DeRozan were named to the McDonald’s All-American Team and the Jordan Brand All-American Team last month.

The USA and World select teams will play at 1 p.m. April 12 from the Rose Garden in Portland Ore. The game will be televised live by Fox Sports Net.

Oh, and here’s a clip of DeRozan showing off at last year’s Nike Global Challenge:

-- Austin Knoblauch

-- Image from www.usabasketball.com