Elijah Stewart slammed home a put-back dunk to end the game. The former Trojan’s two points secured an 87-85 victory over the UCLA alumni basketball team and reignited the crosstown rivalry for former Bruin guards Jordan Adams and Malcolm Lee. Read more...

Photo: Former Bruin guard Malcolm Lee was one of two returning players playing for the Sons of Westwood in the Salt Lake City Regional. Lee finished with 20 points in the effort, and fellow returning Bruin Jordan Adams poured in 37. (Kristie-Valerie Hoang/Daily Bruin senior staff)

The Sons of Westwood are back for the second straight year. The majority-UCLA alumni team will be competing in The Basketball Tournament for a $2 million prize awarded to the winner of the 64-team, single elimination tournament, which was started by Jonathan Mugar in 2014. Read more...

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Jaylen Hands made it onto an NBA highlight reel – just not the way he might have envisioned it. The former Bruin guard took a tumble to the floor in the second quarter of the Brooklyn Nets’ opening NBA Summer League playoff game Saturday after Detroit Pistons guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk stopped on a dime, broke Hands’ ankles and drained a 3-point shot from the wing. Read more...

Photo: (Juliette Le Saint/Daily Bruin senior staff)

When four UCLA Bruins stepped onto the hardwood floor at King Drew Magnet High School in the Willowbrook community of Los Angeles, they were continuing an LA basketball tradition that began in 1973. Read more...

Photo: Rising sophomore forward Kenneth Nwuba played in the Drew League as a part of Tuff Crowd on Saturday. The Tuff Crowd team was organized by Nwuba’s UCLA teammate, rising redshirt freshman forward Shareef O’Neal.(Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin senior staff)

Three Bruins made it to the Association in June, but their trip to the Las Vegas NBA Summer League was not particularly eventful. Brooklyn Nets guard Jaylen Hands and Houston Rockets center Moses Brown both got their first professional action since leaving UCLA men’s basketball in the annual Las Vegas NBA Summer League. Read more...

Photo: Guard Jaylen Hands (right) made his NBA Summer League debut for the Brooklyn Nets on Friday. Hands’ former teammate at UCLA, forward Kris Wilkes, was held off the New York Knicks’ summer league roster due to illness. (Michael Zshornack/Daily Bruin senior staff)

UCLA has historically been one of the top producers for talent that has graced mid-June’s NBA draft. UCLA ranks fourth all-time in players selected in the first round with 39 – only behind powerhouses Kentucky, North Carolina and Duke – and it is one of 19 schools with at least two No. Read more...

Photo: In the 1969 NBA draft, former Bruin Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was picked No. 1 overall. Abdul-Jabbar went on to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer. (Courtesy of UCLA Athletics)