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He found forward Ezra Ausar under the hoop for a dunk — and with the bucket, joined Daniel Hackett in the record books as the only other Trojan to accomplish the feat.

Within that well-worn dynamic, Davidson developed into one of the top women’s hoops prospects in the nation, all while she and her friends led Clackamas High on an unprecedented, four-year run of success.

The spotlight on USC burned brightly from Day 1 last fall, the whole hoops world seemingly waiting on JuJu Watkins to lift the Trojans to a national title.

As a coach in the United States Basketball League, a summer hoops league founded in 1985, Musselman’s Florida Sharks broke attendance records — a fact Musselman knew because he was keeping close track.

The out of place hoops competition was just one component of the evening that really caught me off guard.