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'09 CA PF Renardo Sidney (Mississippi State Signee)

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Hoopfest | Franklin staring at a tough cover

By Tom Wyrwich
Seattle Times staff reporter

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King Holiday Hoopfest
Monday at Edmundson Pavilion (tickets, $10) 9:30 a.m.: Garfield vs. Issaquah girls
11 a.m.: Bothell vs. Gig Harbor boys
12:30 p.m.: Kentwood vs. Jackson girls
2:30 p.m.: Kentwood vs. Bellarmine Prep boys
4 p.m.: Franklin vs. Fairfax (Los Angeles) boys
6 p.m.: O'Dea vs. Lynden
7:30 p.m. Federal Way vs. Garfield boys

Franklin coach Jason Kerr and his staff spent hours Saturday watching tape of Renardo Sidney, hoping to conjure some way the Quakers can defend the country's top-ranked junior.
Yet the mesmerizing reality was this: Sidney can not only post up anyone, rebound, pass and run the floor, he can also sink feather-soft three-pointers with ease.
"And he's 6-foot-10, to boot," Kerr said. "We're running in circles just figuring out what we're going to do to make it hard on him."
Sidney and Fairfax of Los Angeles will play Franklin in a boys basketball game at 4 p.m. Monday in the fifth of the King Holiday Hoopfest's seven games at Edmundson Pavilion.
Sidney's size will be only one issue for Franklin, which doesn't have a starter taller than 6-4. Sidney's versatility is what has separated him from the rest of the nation's juniors. Rivals.com ranks Sidney first in the Class of 2009.
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Checkin' in w/ Sidney

I spoke to Fairfax High junior power forward Renardo Sidney before UCLA played Arizona State on Thursday. He said UCLA still has not offered him, but he is hopeful the offers start coming in after the season.
"I really like UCLA," Sidney said. "I like their academic program. I like their basketball program. But I'm going to weigh my options."
Sidney said his list consists of UCLA, USC, Arizona, Arizona State, Alabama, UAB, Tennessee, Texas and Florida.
"Academics is the most important thing,'' Sidney said. "I want to go to a school where they're going to help me with my academics as much as basketball."
Sidney said the style he wants to play is "fast-paced. I've been playing that since I was in seventh grade with my AAU team, and I don't want to change now."
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Commentary: Westchester's team downs 1-man show
By John Klima, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 02/09/2008 03:01:37 AM PST





We sometimes forget that basketball is supposed to be a team game, but when you have your own documentary filmmaker getting close enough to smell the sweat dripping off a player's shorts, you know something is amiss.
It's probably not a good idea to use the word "amiss" when you talk about a basketball player, though it's better than using brick.
These are words not often associated with Westchester's basketball program, but after a regular season in which losses to Taft and Fairfax (again) threw its control of L.A. City Section basketball further into question, Westchester turned in a performance Wednesday night in a 71-70 double-overtime victory over Fairfax that was one for its video archives, if not those of Fairfax junior center Renardo Sidney, whose personal cameraman follows him conspicuously. Sidney has entered the realm of handlers and hustlers. He's not a high school player, but a prospect on loan, performing here as a perfunctory measure, while he is groomed to be somebody's meal ticket. Appearance counts more than effort, and all you had to do was watch him saunter up and down an NBA-sized court Wednesday night to realize that quick guards at the next level will drive circles around this ice-cream truck if he doesn't learn how to run.

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Sidney still scored 25 points and had 10 rebounds. He still almost beat Westchester. But for one night at least, Westchester's team game defeated the one-man show, and that counts for more than one when your confidence is compromised by show business instead of showing up for business.
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Entertaining a big boy

February 13th, 2008 ? Post a Comment ? posted by Mark Heller

The 6-foot-10, 240-pounder not in a uniform Saturday for the Arizona State-California game at Wells Fargo Arena will probably be Renardo Sidney.
Sidney is expected to pay ASU a visit this weekend. The high school junior is ranked as the No. 1 nationally for the class of 2009 by Rivals, No. 2 according to Scout.
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Fairfax (Calif.) junior Renardo Sidney has already drawn comparisons to Kevin Garnett and Chris Webber. (NBAdraft.net photo)
Sidney is originally from Mississippi, but his family moved to California during high school. He played and won a state title last year at Artesia HS with current ASU freshman James Harden. Sidney moved to Fairfax High School before this school year and currently averages 23.7 points and 14 rebounds per game.
UCLA and USC are also in the sweepstakes for Sidney, who?s not expected to last long in college before jumping to the NBA. Numerous published reports have said Sidney would prefer to stay in California, but the Harden connection and familiarity with former Artesia coach and current ASU assistant Scott Pera, gives the Sun Devils a legitimate chance.
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I've forgotten which one of the talking heads a couple weeks ago said that Tim Floyd might leave USC and go back to the south and take the job at LSU and that could sway this recruit from west to south.
 
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Sidney stands tall to lead Fairfax
past Westchester in City semifinal
By John Klima, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 02/23/2008 01:11:11 AM PST


Renardo Sidney picked a good time to play like the player he says he is, a top-shelf national talent capable of carrying a team at the high school level and ruining the ambitions of opponents.
Westchester, meanwhile, dug itself out of a self-made hole and took a seven-point lead into the final 2:30 of the fourth quarter, only to be burned by a hot player and lament not getting in his face a little bit more often. Sidney's jumper from the top of the key with two seconds to play handed Fairfax a 55-53 victory in an L.A. City Section boys basketball semifinal Friday night at the Galen Center, capping a spree in which he scored 12 of his 32 points in the final two minutes.

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Westchester's Oscar Bellfield, left, and Deshun McCoy can't prevent Fairfax's Renardo Sidney from dunking. (Sean Hill, Staff Photographer)
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Fairfax High star Sidney keeps it all in perspective

Phenom is expected to have an NBA future, but right now he's just having fun.
March 2, 2008


Only time will tell what will become of Renardo Sidney. With any luck, his future will be full of brightness: lined with more fame and fortune than most of us could handle or hope for.

But there are still years to go between then and now. Between the junior year for a teen who is arguably America's best high school basketball player, and the

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