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A growing list of awards for Jaylen Clark is also a reminder of what could have been as well as what’s still to come.The UCLA junior guard on Sunday was honored as the school’s first Naismith defensive player of the year, widely considered…

Less than a month after he suffered a serious lower-leg injury that sidelined him for the season’s final six games, UCLA’s Jaylen Clark declared for the NBA draft.The junior guard who established himself as one of the nation’s top…

SACRAMENTO —  Before he left the podium late Thursday night, Mick Cronin saluted someone several hundred miles away.“Jaylen Clark,” Cronin said, “we miss you, buddy.”Yes, the UCLA Bruins certainly do.Clark is their best defender, if not…

LAS VEGAS —  Life without Jaylen Clark is going to be tough. Amari Bailey made sure it wasn’t unbearable.In UCLA’s first game without its most relentless defender, it got an offensive barrage from its star freshman guard to ward off a huge…

Jaylen Clark’s lower-leg injury changes things.If UCLA manages the situation correctly, maybe not everything.The possible season-ending loss of the team’s defensive maestro Clark, a.k.a., the Man of Steal, to the injury suffered during a…

Long before the season’s first game, Mick Cronin girded himself for this night.It was going to be excruciating for UCLA’s coach to bid farewell to his seniors in their final home game. There was no way to guard against the spontaneous…

CORVALLIS, Ore. —  Jaylen Clark is making room for it in his mind. Alongside the trophies, medals, plaques, certificates and awards the UCLA guard has accumulated over a career spanning numerous youth and high school championships plus a…

UCLA head coach Mick Cronin knew his team tapped into something special and familiar during their East Coast trip, which saw the Bruins take down ranked opponents Maryland and Kentucky.But how his team would sustain that heading into…

The run-and-fun possibilities involving UCLA’s top freshman duo emerged in one spellbinding sequence.When a Norfolk State player made the mistake of trying to take Jaylen Clark off the dribble, forced into an awkward double-pump along the…

Jaylen Clark makes defense sexy.The junior guard generated one roar after another during UCLA’s season opener with his ability to frustrate. The loudest cheers inside Pauley Pavilion came when he poked away the ball from a helpless…