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Basketball prospect Zeke Horton hopes a bright future is in the cards

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
By Ben Bolch
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You have to give the kid credit for trying.

Someone left business cards touting YouTube highlights of Zeke Horton, a junior swingman from Fort Worth (Texas) Southwest Christian, on the windows of cars parked outside the college coaches’ entrance at Las Vegas Bishop Gorman High on Sunday night.

That happens to be the headquarters of the Fab 48 club tournament going on this weekend. Savvy kid.

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The 6-foot-3, 165-pounder with a purported 3.5 grade-point average has some skills too, if his highlight video is any indication. He has decent range, a nice little spin move and some defensive tenacity.

You have to wonder if the likes of Steve Lavin and Ben Howland would be amused or peeved to find these cards on their rental cars. Maybe it’s the start of a great story for Horton.

--Ben Bolch in Las Vegas

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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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