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It Was a Showcase for Best in Preps : Basketball: Arizona’s Olson, Michigan’s Fisher were among college coaches scouting camp at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

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SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

Many of the nation’s top prep basketball players traveled to California last weekend to compete in the West Coast All-Stars camp at Cal State Dominguez Hills.

Nearly every West Coast Division I program was represented by either a coach or an assistant. Among the coaches in attendance were Lute Olson of Arizona, Steve Fisher of Michigan and Jimmy Anderson of Oregon State.

The Top 15 players selected by college coaches were:

* Chauncey Billups of George Washington High, Colo. (6-3, guard, junior)

* Travon Carmichael of Fontana (6-4, guard, senior)

* Schea Cotton of St. John Bosco (6-5, guard, freshman)

* Carlos Daniel of Fairview, Colo. (6-7, forward, senior)

* Michael Dickerson of Federal Way, Wash. (6-5, forward, senior)

* Sidney Faison of Artesia (6-5, guard, senior)

* Tremaine Fowlkes of Crenshaw (6-6, forward, senior)

* Pat Garrity of Lewis Palmer, Colo. (6-8, center, senior)

* omm’A Givens of Aberdeen, Wash. (6-11, center, senior)

* Jim Hajdukovich of Monroe, Alaska (6-2, guard, senior)

* J.R. Henderson of Bakersfield East (6-11, center, senior)

* Johnson of Crenshaw (6-4, forward, senior)

* Arthur Lee of North Hollywood (6-0, guard, junior)

* Charlie Miller of South Miami, Fla. (6-6, forward, senior)

* Archie Williams of Santa Monica (6-1, guard, senior)

Danny Walker of Westchester (6-0, guard, sophomore) was one of six underclassmen selected as the top of the “rookie crop.”

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Also selected were Corey Benjamin of JW North, Matt Bryant of Westwood, Jarren and Jason Collins of North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake and John Nelson of Lynwood.

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Best of the best--Toby Bailey of Loyola High and Cameron Murray of Glendora were selected among the top 20 players at the Nike-All American/Amateur Athletic Union Festival on July 6-10 in Indianapolis.

Bailey, a 6-foot-5 forward, had 12 points, and Murray, younger brother of former UCLA standout Tracy Murray, had 16, including four three-point shots in the all-star game.

Fowlkes and Kris Johnson of Crenshaw, Jelani Gardner of St. John Bosco, Rick Price, formerly of Long Beach St. Anthony, and Henderson of Bakersfield East guided their team, the Los Angeles Lakers, to the finals of the Converse ABCD Summer Jam July 5-8 at the Eastern Michigan University campus in Ypsilanti.

The California team lost to the Detroit Pistons, 62-61, in the closing seconds when Willie Mitchell of Detroit Pershing stole the ball and scored on a layup.

Fowlkes, Johnson, Price, Gardner and Henderson were selected as five of the top 20 players at the camp. Price and Gardner were honored as top 10 players and were selected to the all-tournament team.

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Price, a 6-foot-6 senior guard, was camp’s standout player and is considered by some scouts to be the top prospect on the West Coast. Fowlkes averaged 12 points and Johnson played guard and averaged 16 points during the eight-game tournament.

“Tremaine’s stock (with scouts) went through the ceiling,” Johnson said. “I’ve never seen him play like that. He was unstoppable in one game, hitting six jumpers in a row during one stretch.”

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Nike top 20--After the final shot was made and the trash-talking ended, the top were selected.

In addition to Bailey and Murray, they are:

* Ishua Benjamin, Concord, N.C. (6-4, guard, senior)

* Ronnie Fields, Chicago (6-3, guard, sophomore)

* Prince Flower, Las Vegas (5-10, guard, senior)

* Allen Iverson, Hampton, Va. (6-1, guard, senior)

* Sam Jacobson, Cottage Grove, Minn. (6-5, swingman, senior)

* Raef LeFrentz, Monona, Iowa, (6-10, forward, senior)

* Trajan Langdon, Anchorage, Alaska, (6-4, guard, senior)

* Ron Mercer, Madison, Tenn. (6-7, forward, junior)

* Johnny Miller, Quarryville, Pa. (6-1, guard, senior)

* Norman Nolan, Baltimore (6-8, forward, senior)

* Andrae Patterson, Abilene, Tex. (6-8, forward, senior)

* Tony Rutland, Hampton, Va. (6-1, guard, senior)

* Curtis Staples, Roanoke, Va. (6-2, guard, senior)

* Samaki Walker, Columbus, Ohio (6-9, forward, senior)

* Jahidi White, St. Louis (6-10, center, senior)

* LeRon Williams, Bradenton, Fla. (6-7, forward, senior)

* Lorenzen Wright, Memphis, Tenn. (6-10, forward, senior)

* Tim Young, Santa Cruz (7-1, center, senior).

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Add Nike--Chicago’s Bryant Notree won the slam-dunk contest, edging Alex Sanders of Virginia on the final dunk of the competition. On his last attempt, Notree jumped over two players--one player was sitting on top of a kneeling player--caught a pass and made a two-handed dunk.

Peter Lisicky of Whitehall, Pa., won the three-point shooting contest.

The Nike All-Star game will be televised by ESPN on Aug. 2.

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Community college basketball--The top 200 community college basketball players will be competing in the finals of the West Coast Invitational All-Star Camp which begins today at Cal State Bakersfield.

Marty Cartwright, a 6-9 forward for Los Angeles City College, 6-foot-4 guard James Gray of Santa Monica and 6-foot-6 forward Brandon Jesse of Ventura are among the top players invited to the camp.

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