Bee’s Best: Ponderosa’s Bliss wins fan vote for area’s top basketball player

Aaron Bliss won this week’s fan vote for the Sacramento-area MVP of the high school boys’ basketball season, edging out Elk Grove star Ameere Britton in fan voting. Bliss finished with 49% of the vote while Britton nabbed 31%; nobody else had a double-digit percentage of the votes.

The Bee’s All-Metro team and official Player of the Year story, chosen by Bee staff, will run in the coming weeks.

Bliss turned heads his senior season, the 6-foot-10 Bruins star showcasing versatility and leadership as a driving force behind a 27-0 regular season. The forward/center averaged 15.1 points and a Sac-Joaquin Section-leading 13.5 rebounds and 4.6 blocked shots a game for the best Ponderosa team in school history. The school opened in Shingle Springs in 1963.

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Joe Davidson has covered sports for The Sacramento Bee since 1989: preps, colleges, Kings and features. He was in early 2024 named the National Sports Media Association Sports Writer of the Year for California and he was in the fall of 2024 inducted into the California High School Football Hall of Fame. He is a 14-time award winner from the California Prep Sports Writer Association. In 2021, he was honored with the CIF Distinguished Service award. He is a member of the California Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Davidson participated in football and track in Oregon.