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Boys’ basketball: Leonard among Wooden Award winners

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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King forward Kawhi Leonard, The Times’ player of the year, was among the seven local players selected today as recipients of the John R. Wooden High School Player of the Year Awards.

The other winners were Westchester’s Dominique O’Connor in the City Section, Eisenhower’s Andrew Bock in Division II, Harvard-Westlake’s Erik Swoope in Division III, Bishop Montgomery’s Justin Cobbs in Division IV, Windward’s Darius Morris in Division V and Besant Hill’s Yannick Atanga in Division VI.

Each winner receives a plaque, $400 in his name donated to his high school’s athletic fund and will be recognized during the Wooden Award gala Friday that also honors the college basketball players of the year.

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--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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