San Diego will host a two-game high school basketball showcase and a WNBA exhibition game on Saturday.<\/p>\n
You can probably assume where one game will be played. The other two? Keep guessing.<\/p>\n
The WNBA\u2019s Los Angeles Sparks open preseason play with a noon game against the Nigerian National Team at Viejas Arena.<\/p>\n
And at 2 p.m., Sea World\u2019s Nautilus Arena will host the first of two Ballislife x Sea World All-American Games. The high school showcase begins with a boys game at 2 p.m., with a girls game to follow at 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s exhibition is the Sparks\u2019 first at Viejas in nearly 16 years. Los Angeles beat the Chinese Women\u2019s National Team 78-58 on May 1, 2010, in the first WNBA game ever played in San Diego.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Sparks are led by San Diego\u2019s Kelsey Plum, a La Jolla Country Day graduate who is averaging 15.1 points and 4.3 assists per game during her eight-year WNBA career. The game marks a return to Viejas for forward Cameron Brink, who scored 25 points and grabbed 12 rebounds while playing the equivalent of 2\u00bd quarters in Stanford\u2019s 85-54 win over San Diego State in December 2023.<\/p>\n
The Ballislife games feature some of the nation\u2019s top high-schoolers. Six of the country\u2019s top-15-ranked girls players have committed to the game, including the UConn-bound Olivia Vukosa. The boys\u2019 game is highlighted by two top-10 players: the Missouri-bound Jason Crowe and Maryland commit Babatunde Oladotun. Also playing is Tahj Ariza, an Oregon commit and the son of former UCLA standout Trevor Ariza.<\/p>\n
Tickets for the Sparks-Nigeria game start at $48.50. The Ballislife games are free with a Sea World ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego will host a two-game high school basketball showcase and a WNBA exhibition game on Saturday. You…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2558,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-604484","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-latest-headlines","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}