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The Air Up There

CASSIUS STANLEY finds himself at a crossroads one morning before a team shootaround. The 6-5, five-star senior shooting guard is sitting down near his locker for an interview and is having trouble deciding how to answer.

What’s your response to those who say you guys can’t do it again?

After asking for the question to be repeated, he pauses before he finally gives an answer.

“We’re just going to do it,” Stanley says. “For the people who say we can’t do it again, you’ll see the show.”

Last season’s talk around California high school hoops was about all the transfers who enrolled in Sierra Canyon School, a prestigious private Pre-K-12 college preparatory in Chatsworth. Located on the outskirts of Los Angeles in the San Fernando Valley, Sierra Canyon has a reputation for being a school attended by children of A-list celebrities.

Stanley, son of

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