high-school-basketball
The NBA and NBPA are working to abolish the league’s long-standing one-and-done rule. Shams Charania of The Athletic reports both sides are expected to agree on lowering the draft eligibility age from 19 to 18 as part of the new collective bargaining agreement. This would allow players to enter the NBA straight out of high school. The change […]
With high school basketball season in full swing, the Kanye West-backed Donda Academy has graced the cover of Slam Magazine, and to commemorate the achievement Ye also dropped a series of Donda Academy merch items. The Donda Academy merchandise resembles much of Ye’s recent clothing that he’s released, especially his line of hoodies that he dropped in his […]
A high school teacher from North Carolina was killed last week when he was fatally shot while trying to steal from the house of a Mexican drug cartel member with his brother-in-law, WSOC-TV reports. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said Barney Harris, a Spanish teacher and varsity basketball coach at the charter school Union Academy, and his brother-in-law Steven Alexander Stewart […]
A high school basketball coach’s short temper has cost him his job. Indiana resident Nick Moore, who has coached at Gary Lighthouse College Prep Academy for three seasons, confirmed his termination on social media Monday. The announcement came just days after Moore was filmed throwing a chair onto the court during a Friday night game against his alma mater. […]
Forcing predominantly Black athletes to choose between their beliefs and passions is a major plight within the world of sports at all levels. Though LeBron James and other big-name superstars have worked to combat the “shut up and dribble” narrative, one Florida high school proved that this mindset is still prevalent. On Saturday, Girls Talk Sports reported that […]
Over the past several years, New York media and optimistic Knicks fans have openly wished/fantasized about adding star players to the franchise only to miss out on their targets again and again. Then they move on to somebody else. Project a lineup that’ll never exist. It happens once more. Etcetera. Ad nauseam. You get the […]
LaMelo Ball had a press conference on Friday upon his arrival in Ohio. That’s where he’s playing high school basketball for SPIRE Prep Academy. Initial reports pegged the move as a showcase for NBA scouts to see how he fared against competition his own age in anticipation for the 2020 draft. But at his press conference to […]
It had been a while since a Ball brother was in the news, but amateur basketball’s Kris Jenner, LaVar Ball, was never going to allow that trend to continue. He enrolled his youngest son, LaMelo Ball, in Ohio’s Spire Prep Academy because he’s still eligible to play his senior year against other prep schools to show NBA scouts what he can do against peers his own […]
The youngest member of the Ball family is going back to high school. LaMelo Ball is state-side again and plans to enroll in Ohio’s SPIRE Institute to play a senior season of high school hoops, Slam reports. He could be on the court playing against fellow 17-year-olds as early as next week, when SPIRE takes on prep behemoth La Lumiere […]
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