By: Keith Agran ATLANTA, GA – Holy Innocents’ 2024 guard Will Hopkins plays a fast and stylish brand of ball. That has come from a combination of good genetics (his older brother AJ stars for Team Dickerson Prep’s post-grad team now), hard work and wise decisions about his future. You can find him in the gym working like all the other players we’ve featured in this series, or you might bump into him down the line at a car show at Cobb Galleria or the Convention Center, marveling at other fast and stylish......
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By: Keith Agran CANTON, GA – They say “EDMED” a lot up around the gym at Cherokee HS. No, it’s not the school’s trainer saying it most often about his or her former mentor named ‘Ed’, or a local dentist named ‘Ed’ who does a really nice job on the basketball player’s teeth. It’s “Every Day Means Every Day”, the motto that drives this current iteration of Cherokee basketball under 1st-year HC Joe Viehman. It’s grounded in not looking too far ahead, even for a team that might be prone to do......
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PHOTO COURTESY OF GAME ELITE By: Keith Agran SANDY SPRINGS, GA – If you haven’t made it just inside the perimeter to Riverwood International Charter High School or made a plan to see a 6A-Region 7 contest of late, you’re surely missing one of the top 2024 guards in the state and perhaps the Southeast as well in Riverwood sophomore Karris Bilal. Dropping 30+ in a game, regularly shooting over 50% from the field, drawing oohs and aahs from the crowd, these are normal occurrences for the 6-3 star guard, and he’s......
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By: Keith Agran ATLANTA, GA – Just don’t ask 2024 guard Christian Anderson, or his father Christian Sr, if they have a chip on their shoulder about all he’s accomplished already being under the fictionally “dreaded” under 6 feet barrier. It shouldn’t matter, and it surely doesn’t to this basketball family, one that understands the landscape better than most and has charted and gone all-in with a clear path for Christian’s future in the game. But it was never forcibly thrust upon the talented young scorer, sometimes hoops is merely in the......
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By: Keith Agran FORT WALTON BEACH, FL – There are prospects on the rise, and then there are sky-rocketing prospects. After his summer with 1Family and dominating fall on the FL Showcase scene, 6-9 2024 forward and former Georgia-native Asa Newell of Choctawhatchee HS on the Florida panhandle is in rocket-mode and has eyes trained on him from the highest college sources. You can hardly find a player garnering more attention anywhere in the Southeast in the 2024 class than this dynamic small forward, readers can peek in on his Twitter at......
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By: Keith Agran NORCROSS, GA – Even players with great physical gifts still need to find their niche. With Norcross 2023 guard London Johnson, it was apparent from the moment he officially arrived in Georgia from North Carolina at the end of the summer of 2020 that he was going to be special, but finding a home both for basketball and his family’s comfort was a careful, thoughtful process between he, his dad LeVar, and the rest of the Johnson clan. The result is a basketball future bright with possibilities and a......
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By: Keith Agran WINTER HAVEN, FL – Continuing with our looks at top Florida prospects, Radar Contact “South” spent some time talking with 6-8 2023 forward Dylan James out of Winter Haven HS and the 1Family AAU program. All signs point to a what was a blow-up of a spring/summer season, one which hasn’t abated at all in Fall Showcases, and he’s racked up an impressive offer list off those performances (at bottom). James will be playing his ball with Winter Haven this coming winter after spending his entire sophomore campaign with......
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By: Keith Agran MELBOURNE, FL – It’s just a tad over 1,400 miles between Melbourne and Des Moines, IA, so Wade Christian Academy 2022 forward Turuk Rundial knows a little about covering some ground. His journey from the Hawkeye State to the Sunshine State for high school is not your average tale of a bright, young man who wants a future in college basketball, resulting in the fairy tale ending. Uprooting your life and having the courage to do something that significant is both terrifying and brave all at the same time,......
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By: Keith Agran LILBURN, GA – The path to success is very rarely if ever a straight line. Twists and turns and new challenges face us all, and for Berkmar 2022 guard Jameel Rideout the line zig-zagged from South Cobb to Gwinnett County. He’s taken some risks, made some tactical choices, as he pursues a next-level career in basketball, and I sat down with him for a chat about where he’s come from over the last 2 years and what he sees for himself and a Berkmar team that is loaded with......
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FULL “PRESS BREAKER” PODCAST EPISODE AT BOTTOM!! By: Keith Agran WOODSTOCK, GA – It’s been a road filled with adversity for Grant Portera. Team jumps, injuries, covid, non-believers, these aren’t necessarily items exclusive to the River Ridge 2022 guard, but they sure have played a huge role in the person and player he is today. Like many, June 2020 was the first chance to get back on the court two months after the emergence of Covid-19 in a significant way in the US changed all of our lives. It was the beginning......
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