Boys’ basketball: Anthony January is City player of the year
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Anthony January of Woodland Hills Taft has been selected the City Section player of the year by the coaches. Taft’s Jason Hart was named coach of the year.
First-team All-City selections include Donovan Johnson of Palisades, Brandon Baker of Crenshaw, Julian Richardson of El Camino Real, Gor Plavchyan of Grant, Sheldon Wright of View Park Prep, Isaiah Hicks of Washington, Zachary Hinton of Franklin, Joel Anderson of Banning, Landon Drew of Fairfax, Keywhon Powns of Westchester, Daviyon Draper of Locke, Donald Muepo Jr. of Dorsey, Mychal Deas of Bell and Brandon Perry of Taft.
Second-team choices were Ralph Harvey Jr. of Washington, Maleke Haynes of El Camino Real, Michael Thomas of El Camino Real, Mathew Grant of Westchester, Brendyn Taylor of Fairfax, Andre Edwards of Crenshaw, Jesus Chiquete of Bell, Joe Joaquin of Garfield, Kalin Barber of Dorsey, Terrell Funches of Chatsworth, Travis Wilson of Grant, Tony Ingram of Carson and Kris Yanku of Taft.
Richadson was named City Division II player of year and Mychal Deas of Bell was named Division III player of the year.
The coaches also picked separate Division I, II and III teams. They will be posted at the City Section website later today.
Comment: How Edwards, Yanku and Taylor were left off first-team All-City is mind boggling. Yes, it’s good to get many teams represented, but isn’t the first priority to pick the best players off the best teams?
-- Eric Sondheimer