Excerpted from yesterday's San Jose Mercury in an article by David Kiefer:
On the wall above the main entrance is a mural, maybe 25 years old judging from the short shorts, of a long-haired blond boy competing in uniforms of various Matadors sports teams.Read the rest of the story
But the Monta Vista team that took the floor looked nothing like the caricature on the wall. In fact, Monta Vista is a rarity in boys high school basketball, a team with an all-Asian-American starting lineup.
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Super-freak NBA prospect Kevin Durant teamed up w/ two Japanese-born players at Montrose Christian HS: K.J. Matsui and Taishi Ito.
While Durant's tearing things up at Texas (can you say 'one and done?'), Matsui's at Columbia: http://www.gocolumbialions.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=43666&SPID=3886&DB_OEM_ID=9600&ATCLID=323274&Q_SEASON=2006 and Ito's at Portland: http://www.portlandpilots.com/sports/mbball/rosters/displayPlayer.asp?PLAYER_ID=831
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