Looking back at perhaps the greatest All-CIF basketball team ever
LA TimesMagic Johnson, with arms raised, and Lakers teammates, from left, Paul Holland, Norm Nixon and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, wearing hat, after winning the NBA championship in 1980. It’s the 50-year anniversary of one of the greatest teams in Southern California high school basketball history — the 1974-75 All-CIF team in Division “AAAA.” The most valuable player on that team was David Greenwood from Verbum Dei. An astounding seven players among the 10 first-team selections made it to the NBA, including Reggie Theus of Inglewood, Bill Laimbeer of Palos Verdes, Brad Holland of Crescenta Valley, Roy Hamilton of Verbum Dei, James Hardy of Long Beach Jordan and Paul Mokeski of Crespi. “Everyone talks about that year because it was extraordinary with the amount of talent playing,” said Holland, who played for UCLA and won an NBA title with the Lakers in 1980. If you made All-CIF, you were special.” It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1975 All-CIF boys basketball team in which seven of the 10 first-team selections made it to the NBA.
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