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April 13, 2008
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USA
Junior Team Beats
World Team Select 98-78
 The Annual Nike Hoop Summit
was nationally televised on Saturday, April 12.
The
USA’s 20-point margin of victory tied the game’s record
for victory margin. The 20 point differential has also
been equaled on two other occasions, 100-80 in 2007 and
99-79 in the 2004 game.
France’s
Ajinca led the World team with 13 points and a game
best nine rebounds while Samardo Samuels
(St. Benedict’s Prep, N.J. / Jamaica), who is slated
to play at Louisville next year scored 10 points.
The world team featured players from 11 countries,
including
Jamaica,
France,
Puerto Rico,
Argentina,
Republic of
Congo,
Canada,
Ukraine,
Lithuania,
Serbia,
Nigeria,
and
Germany.
Samuels, the No.1 high
school center in the country, plans to attend the 8th annual Star
Search Basketball & Life Skills Development Camp is
set for July 13-18, 2008 at the G.C. Foster College
of Physical Education & Sports in St. Catherine,
Jamaica - the place where it all started for him.
The Nike Hoop Summit is an annual game which sees
America's top senior high school players take on a
World Select Team comprised of the world's top
players 19-years-old or younger. It has now been
staged on 11 previous occasions and has given an
extraordinary number of talented young players the
chance to showcase their abilities.
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