Top High School Hoopsters of All-Time

All the college basketball talk these days is about recruiting, drafting and college decisions. In light of this fact, we’re going to feed you blog readers a nice little story about the 50 best high school basketball players of all-time.  Well, that introduction might be a little deceiving. You see, Kevin Askeland of maxpreps.com has gone about this thing a little bit differently. He has listed the 50 US States and determined a best player from each. Some more popular states, like California, New York, Texas and Illinois, are harder to determine. Actually there are only 49 players listed. Vermont has no former high school players who went on to play in the NBA.

The determining factors for this list were interesting.  The player had to make some sort of contribution at the high school level and had to play professionally. While having a terrific high school career is important, sometimes the later success outweighs high school success. Suppose you led your high school team to 4 straight state titles, but got injured in college and never played pro. You wouldn’t be in the running.

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