{"id":7785,"date":"2021-01-11T09:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/?p=50000002272"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:01:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:01:41","slug":"a-look-back-at-poly-boys-basketballs-classic-magic-20th-cif-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/a-look-back-at-poly-boys-basketballs-classic-magic-20th-cif-championship","title":{"rendered":"A look back at Poly boys&#8217; basketball&#8217;s classic, &#8216;magic&#8217; 20th CIF championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The562.org Classic: 2014 Long Beach Poly Basketball CIF Championship\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x22SAYIMp6Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In this installment of The562.org\u2019s Classics video series, we look back at the 2014 Long Beach Poly boys\u2019 basketball CIF Southern Section championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Jackrabbits weren\u2019t even picked to win the Moore League that season, but, with interim head coach Shelton Diggs and two seniors leading the way, a defense-first approach carried Poly through the Division 1AA postseason and past Mission Viejo, 54-46, in the final at Honda Center.<\/p>\n<p>Poly had a handful of future college players on the floor and it showed as they made all of the clutch plays down the stretch. Kameron Murrell (George Mason) scored a team-high 19 points on his 18th birthday, and fellow guard KJ Feagin (Santa Clara\/SDSU) scored half of his 14 points in the fourth quarter. This was the 20th CIF basketball championship for Poly, and the Jackrabbits have won a CIF basketball title in each decade since the 1910\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great feeling for us,\u201d Diggs said. \u201cTwenty is the magic number, that\u2019s what we were hoping to get. I\u2019m very proud of our guys today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jackrabbits weren\u2019t even picked to win the Moore League that season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":17191,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2156],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[199],"class_list":["post-7785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-the562-classics","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}