{"id":364508,"date":"2025-12-22T12:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364508\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T12:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T12:30:07","slug":"palisades-starts-out-as-city-section-basketball-favorite-in-top-10-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/364508\/","title":{"rendered":"Palisades starts out as City Section basketball favorite in top 10 rankings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s time to take a look at the City Section\u2019s top boys\u2019 basketball teams a little more than a month into the season:<\/p>\n<p>1. PALISADES (2-4): The Popoola twins, EJ and OJ, combined with freshman Phillip Reed, make the Dolphins the City Section Open Division title favorites.<\/p>\n<p>2. WASHINGTON PREP (6-4): Jayshawn Kibble is a candidate for City player of the year.<\/p>\n<p>3. CLEVELAND (5-4): Sophomore guard Charlie Adams becomes eligible  Friday.<\/p>\n<p>4. GRANADA HILLS (6-3): Help coming when sit-out transfer period ends Friday.<\/p>\n<p>5. SAN PEDRO (7-3): Lots of varsity experience could result in Marine League title.<\/p>\n<p>6. VENICE (5-8): Win over Fairfax, one-point loss to San Pedro.<\/p>\n<p>7. BIRMINGHAM (4-2): Patriots like being under the radar.<\/p>\n<p>8. TAFT (5-4): Turnaround showing progress ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p>9. FAIRFAX (5-2): Young players making progress.<\/p>\n<p>10. EL CAMINO REAL (7-5): One-point loss to Chaminade offers hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to take a look at the City Section\u2019s top boys\u2019 basketball teams a little more than&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,37921,144833,198204,198208,198207,39598,198206,198205,22713,58312,163522,198209,198211,85,198210,8935],"class_list":["post-364508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-candidate","tag-city-player","tag-city-section-basketball-favorite","tag-ej","tag-fairfax","tag-friday","tag-one-point-loss","tag-palisades","tag-progress","tag-ranking","tag-san-pedro","tag-sit-out-transfer-period","tag-sophomore-guard-charlie-adams","tag-sports","tag-top-boy","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}