JACKIE COWIN
All 50 teams are written up with explanations for why they were placed in these positions. Montverde Academy is in the pole position to begin the season for the seventh time. The only time Montverde Academy didn’t finish No. 1 when starting out No. 1 was in 2019, when the Eagles finis...
Houston SG Top 100: No. 56 Stats: No. 17 Consensus: 0.9 WARP The lone newcomer to my top 30 from June, Hinton replaces Gonzaga guard Joel Ayayi, who opted to return to college. Statistically, Hinton's strength is his rebounding from the perimeter. As a 6-foot-5 shooting guard, he...
The NBA All-Star break comes well past the halfway point in the season, but can serve as something of a line of demarcation for teams falling out of contention status and looking ahead to the 2025–26 season. Fortunately, those teams without much to be excited about the rest of the way...
including a broken foot in October. It’s important to remember NBA teams’ evaluations go well beyond college now, particularly with the availability of high school and AAU film. Whitehead played for prep powerhouse Montverde Academy and showcased interesting playmaking tools considering his big wing...
Drafted:No. 1 in 2002 by theHouston Rockets Before there was Oden, there was Yao -- the first international player to be drafted No. 1. Yao was a freak of nature. At 7-foot-6, he was the tallest active player in the NBA. While there had been one other player from China before ...
The consensus No. 1 shooting guard in the class of 2025 nationally was matched up against defending D1 (highest classification) state champs Akron St. Vincent St. Mary over President’s Day weekend and despite constant face guards and double teams, certainly lived up to the hype. He dropped...
That year, the Red Sox were involved in a four-way race for the AL pennant with the Detroit Tigers, Minnesota Twins, and Chicago White Sox; the race was reduced to three teams after the White Sox lost a doubleheader to the Kansas City Athletics, on September 27. The Red Sox and ...
D’Angelo Russell was never really the man on his teams until arriving at Ohio State. He played high school ball at Montverde (Fla.) Prep with Kentucky’s Dakari Johnson and Florida’s Kasey Hill and played AAU with Duke’s Grayson Allen. But in Columbus, he was finally given a chance...