The player who can claim GOAT status out of Compton High is currently in the NBA with five-time NBA All-Star shooting guard/small forward DeMar DeRozan, who will have made $257.6 million in career earnings once his current contract with the Chicago Bulls ends after the 2023-24 season. 3 in the nation in the polls and featured two future NBA lottery picks, 6-foot-9 forward Michael Cage and 6-10 center Keith Lee, with Cage as the alpha dog of the group. Hall of Famer Dominique Wilkins led Washington High to back-to-back Class 3A state championships in his final two years of high school, including a 29-0 season as a senior. In the late 1930s, Art Spector was the star for West Philadelphia. Southwest Macon High coach Duck Richardson was so hard on his players they gave him a truly deplorable nickname we won't repeat here feel free to look it up if you're so inclined but the results are impossible to argue. Muhammad led the Gaels to another state championship as a senior in 2012. In 2021, Eck returned to coaching high school basketball and back in Wichita at Kapaun Mount Carmel High School. Was Douglas, who starred at Syracuse and played 13 seasons in the NBA, the greatest player to ever come out of Spingarn? Key players: Paul Silas, Joe Ellis, Aaron Pointer. Rose and Simeon won titles in 2006 and 2007. Thompson, who was inducted into both the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame, died in August 2020 at 78 years old. St. Vincent-St. Mary didn't stop winning state championships after LeBron James embarked on one of the greatest NBA careers of all time. View More Preseason 2022-23 FAB 50: Top 15 Teams! [jwplayer lpqhoLGb-BmKM743H] It was another hardware-filled week of high school basketball around the nation, as No. Key players: Jerry Lucas, Larry Emrick, Tom Sizer. Longtime rival Dunbar High. It's worth noting the school didn't open its doors until 1997. Garnett was the National Player of the Year in 1995 and became the first high school player picked in the NBA draft in 20 years, when he was selected No. When teams from New York end up on the national stage, it's usually coming out of New York City. Spector went on to play for Villanova, then became the first player ever signed by the Boston Celtics. Key players: Pete Trgovich, Junior Bridgeman, Tim Stoddard, Darnell Adell, Ruben Bailey. Cage played in college for San Diego State, where he was a two-time WAC Player of the Year and an All-American in 1984. And our eyes tell us that the 2019-20 Montverde Academy team is one of the best collections of high school talent we've ever seen. Ames High hasn't won another state title in boys basketball since 2010, but its two stars have remained in the basketball spotlight on the next level. The 1977 state champions were inducted into the Lansing Sports Hall of Fame in 2012. In 1995, El-Amin was pulling off similar feats. He starred in basketball for BYU but also played in the majors for the Toronto Blue Jays, where he became the youngest player in franchise history to hit a home run. Jevon Crudup was the straw that stirred the drink for Raytown South, which finished No. He was a Ukrainian Super League All-Star in 2009, NBA D-League All-Star in 2013 and NBL All-Star for the New Zealand Breakers in 2013. Key players: Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr., Stephen Van Treese, Damian Windham. Three of SLAM's college hoop junkies compiled their personal lists using a mental simulation of "Who dominated their respective season the most . Proviso East's legendary early 1990s teams weren't the last time multiple NBA players would be on the roster, either. Willie Weeks, Wolf Point - Weeks helped lead the Wolves to the 1968 Big 32 state championship . As a senior in 1989-90, Brandon led King to a 32-0 record and the state championship before being named mythical national champions by USA Today. The Hargrave Military Academy 1998-99 basketball team was an absolute problem. Malik Sealy had one of the more amazing backstories of anyone in basketball. Washington went unbeaten on the way to the state championship. He's been a three-time NBA All-Star and will have made $214.2 million in career earnings when his current contract runs out after the 2022-23 season. How was TPS caught? Future NBA superstar and Hall of Famer Kobe Bryant was the first freshman to start on the varsity for Lower Merion High. It's not recency bias to just believe what your eyes tell you. James would have been the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft after his junior season for sure and maybe his sophomore season and was a three-time Parade All-American and two-time National Player of the Year. No one could hold a candle to Chaminade College Prep's Jayson Tatum during his final two years as a high school player, when he led his school to the Class 5A state championships in 2016. MaxPreps Top 25 High School Basketball Rankings. Oden was one of the most heralded recruits of the last 30 years and a two-time Parade All-American and the National Player of the Year. They were featured on "Dateline," "Regis and Kathie Lee," and in People Magazine and ended the season on a 50-game winning streak. It lies mainly on the right bank of the Rhine River, 21 miles (34 km) northwest of Cologne. But UNLV forward Anthony Bennett lasted just four seasons in the NBA and is widely considered one of the biggest draft busts in pro sports history. For all of Mo Bamba's basketball accomplishments, they now pale in comparison to a hit song named "Mo Bamba" written and performed by one of Bamba's childhood friends, rapper Sheck Wes. 1 overall in the 2013 NBA draft. Findlay opened in 2006 and closed its doors in 2019, winning three mythical national titles and producing 17 NBA players and 70 Division I players in that stretch. Key players:Gene Banks, Joe Garrett, Clarence Tillman, Darryl Warwick, Mike Powell, Vincent Ross, Tyrell Biggs, Pee Wee Thomas. Ranking Explanation . Rose was the real prize, though. Juan Dixon was a skinny shooting guard who took college basketball by storm in the early 2000s, leading the University of Maryland to its only national championship in 2002 while being named Final Four Most Outstanding Player. Also known as the world-famous, Grammy Award-winning musical group The Pointer Sisters. Now known as Blazer High, it is still the only high school from Kentucky to win a national championship in boys basketball, where it capped off the year with a 15-10 win over Canton (Illinois) High at the National Interscholastic Tournament in Chicago. Ellis was a three-time All-Big 12 selection and two-time All-American at the University of Kansas. Players and teams so great they took up permanent space in the memories of basketball fans. Key players: Antoine Carr, Darnell Valentine. Marion went 84-4 over that period, capped by a 69-56 win over Richmond in the 1987 state championship game, and had nine of its players go on to play college basketball. In basketball-crazy Kansas, one high school team stands above all the rest the 1976-77 Wichita Heights High team led by future NBA first-round draft picks Darnell Valentine and Antoine "Big Dog" Carr. Key players: LeBron James, Dru Joyce III, Sian Cotton, Romeo Travis. After Khalid El-Amin led Minneapolis North Community High to three consecutive state championships, the school didn't win another state title until 2003, then not again after that until winning back-to-back titles in 2016 and 2017. Without a question of a doubt, the 2019-20 Montverde Academy (Montverde, Fla.) team is one of the greatest of all-time. Schenley has had some powerful teams over the years, but as it relates to our time frame, the 2007 group is the one that makes the cut. The only loss for DeMatha that season? 7 overall recruit in the country. Imagine trying to prepare your team to face West Memphis High during the 1979-80 season. Dozens of future pros have walked through Oak Hill's doors perhaps none greater than Carmelo Anthony, who led Syracuse to its lone national title as a freshman in 2003. Key players: Oscar Robertson, Albert Maxey, Bill Brown, Stan Patton, Edgar Searcy. Even at that, no one outshined Stackhouse. Flint Northwestern has not won a state title in boys basketball since Rice, Rison and Grayer led them to back-to-back championships in 1984 and 1985. Once the school was taken out of the hands of the School District of Philadelphia, things began to change. Some of those teams were even better than that. In his last year at TPS, Boyle had two future NBA players, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and 2012 NBA draft No. Middle brother LiAngelo Ball, who actually led the team in scoring, was also key as Chino Hills took down ranked team after ranked team, including wins over Montverde Academy (Florida), Jefferson (New York), Bishop Gorman (Nevada) and Bishop MOntgomery (California). Bob Hurley Sr. would be St. Anthony High's coach for 45 years, staying at the school until the day it closed in 2017. Lewis played six seasons in the ABA and was an ABA All-Star in 1971, but his career was cut short by an Achilles tendon injury. 6 overall in the 2016 NFL draft. Key players: Duane Ferrell, James "Pop" Tubman, Marc Wilson, Paul Edwards, Pat Sass. Dee Brown led the University of Illinois to the 2005 NCAA championship game while Shannon Brown won a pair of NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010. Proviso East won another state title in 1992 but hasn't won again since, finishing as state runner-up in 2012 and taking fourth place in 2013. Key players: Adrian Dantley, Kenny Carr, Billy Langloh, Eric Coard, Ron Satterthwaite, Buzzy O'Connell, Vern Allen. The song was actually released in 2017 and didn't become a hit until 2018, when it went viral and climbed to No. Head coach Russell Otis was acquitted in his trial for sexually molesting one of his players and reclaimed his job before the 2002-03 season. Hamilton became a basketball oddity. Harris spent the next 11 seasons playing basketball professionally all over the world just not in the NBA. Key players: Sherrell Ford, Michael Finley, Donnie Boyce. 6 overall pick in the 2002 NBA draft. That's a truly remarkable feat for coach Greg Wise's squad. . Leverage your professional network, and get hired. Cage played 15 seasons in the NBA and led the league in rebounding while playing for the Los Angeles Clippers in 1988. The best team their school ever had was the next year, when future NBA legend Oscar Robertson was a senior and led the team to 31-0 record and was named Mr. Basketball in Indiana. Point guard Rumeal Robinson was a star for Rindge in 1986, leading his school to the state title before heading to the University of Michigan, where he teamed up with Glen Rice to win the 1989 NCAA championship. The team, which also was featured in the 2018 documentary "We Town," won consecutive Independent Schools state titles in 2016 and 2017. You can still watch Long Beach Poly's thrilling 45-44 win over Mater Dei in the CIF championship game and see for yourself why this team made the list. Interestingly enough, they could have won another state title in 1963, but the school board wouldn't allow the team to play in the state tournament. The debate over who is the greatest high school basketball player in Alaska history boils down to three players East's Trajan Langdon, Bartlett's Mario Chalmers and Juneau-Douglas High's Carlos Boozer. There were two future NBA players on McClymonds High's unbeaten 1959-60 team Paul Silas and Joe Ellis. Montverde Academy went 25-1 in 2020-21 and repeated as national champions and had another group of stars led by projected future first-round pick Calab Houstan and Creighton star Ryan Nembhard. In April 2021, at the end of his 52nd year as a high school basketball coach, he was named the AT&T National Coach of the Year. After Parker won the Class AA state championship, they played in a national tournament, where they took down the defending national champions from Pearl (Tennessee) High before beating Armstrong (Virginia) High in the finals. Key players: Jay Humphries, Ralph Jackson. That would be none other than Bel-Air Academy shooting guard Will Smith, the star of "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" and played originally by Overbrook High grad Will Smith. 5 overall pick in the 2003 NBA draft. At 6-foot-8, he was a 3-point shooter and one of the best long-distance shooters of the 1990s, when he played 11 seasons in the NBA. Peoria Manual High lost its only game of the season to Chicago Carver early in the season, then stormed back to set up a state semifinals showdown with another nationally ranked team in Thornton High. Hall of Famer Kevin Garnett transferred to Chicago's Farragut Career Academy before his senior year in 1994-95 and created one of the greatest high school basketball duos of all time when he paired up with fellow phenom Ronnie Fields, who was one year behind him in school. Parker was an All-American in his one season at Duke and the No. He's known to have heard a spectacular time playing basketball and many fans and . Former Nathan Hale High star Michael Porter Jr. has become one of the most befuddling NBA prospects to come along in some time. Pointer wasn't even the most famous person in his family. It featured a starting five of all future Division I players and two future NBA draft picks, Mo Bamba and Cam Reddish, the No. Banks scored 31 points for the Speedboys in a 72-52 win over Father Judge High in the city championship game. Key players: O.J. Future Pitt All-American DeJuan Blair and St. John's . Beal was the Gatorade National Player of the Year in 2011 and played one season at the University of Florida. Key players: B.J. In that time, Hurley won 26 state championships, four national championships and was named USA Today National Coach of the Year three times. 5 overall by the MInnesota Timberwolves. What's amazing about the team is that few names jump off the page from Camden High that were on the roster that year a true testament to how well head coach Clarence Turner's team was run. Key players: John Thompson, Edward Malloy, Tom Hooper, George Leftwich. Calvert Hall played a national schedule that year that included wins over D.C.'s Spingarn High and a victory in a 1-2 matchup against Camden (New Jersey) High. Bradley averaged 19 points per game, and playing all over the country in tournaments, he brought home MVP at every single one. James was hired as the head coach at Austin Peay in April 2021. IMG is led by six top 50 . Strong, powerful point guard who led the Falcons to a state championship. He went on to help lead Michigan to back-to-back Final Fours, alongside childhood friend Chris Webber, and played 14 seasons in the NBA. 5 overall recruit Dariq Whitehead, a 6-foot-6 small forward signed to play for Duke. Key players: Jevon Crudup, Deric Cofield, Steve Aldrich, Scott Fidler, Andy Nicholson, Bryan Harris, Jesse Battles. Len Elmore also played for Power Memorial after Abdul-Jabbar. The 7-footer won two state basketball championships (1978 and 1979) while also earning Parade All-American honors. The Patrick School did everything it could to win a national championship in 2007 but came up just short at No. 3 scorer in state history. The 6-foot-8 forward began to pick up national attention as a senior when he had 48 points, 27 rebounds, 8 blocks and 9 dunks in a win over a much larger school a performance that earned him a spot in Sports Illustrated's "Faces in the Crowd" section. One of Hargrave's greatest players and its greatest coach teamed up to win a national championship on the college level. The two Parade All-Americans coached by Lafayette Norwood saw little in the way of competition throughout the year. Key players: Danny Ainge, Rodger Bates, Mike O'Neill, Greg Niko, Steve Moulton, Greg Jacobson. 1st Regular Season FAB 50: NEW No. Oak Hill Academy didn't stop winning national titles after that first one in 1993. Camden High's 1986 team went unbeaten and was rewarded with a national championship from USA Today when it came out on top in the final Super 25 Poll. Every state has its high school basketball legends. 1 overall in the 2003 NBA draft, SVSM has won five more state titles, in 20009, 2011, 2017, 2018 and 2021. Visit Our Patreon Page to Create Your Own All-Time Fantasy Teams and See Other Bonus Material . The 2019-20 Blazer team was 28-0 heading into the state tournament, looking to become the first team to go unbeaten and win a state title since Brewers High in 1948. Harris transferred to Notre Dame Prep in Massachusetts for his final high school season and played for Syracuse for three seasons before declaring himself eligible for the NBA draft and going unselected. Minnehaha won its third state championship in four years in 2021. Barnes and McDermott were actually teammates in the NBA, with both playing for the Dallas Mavericks in 2018. Any conversation about the greatest teams and greatest players in Chicago high school basketball history should include King College Prep and 6-foot-4 Jamie Brandon, a three-time All-State pick who finished his career as the No. Wiley then played more than a decade of professional basketball, including seven seasons in the NBA. Brandon, who originally committed to play for Illinois, teamed with Shaquille O'Neal at LSU and helped lead the Tigers to a Sweet 16 appearance. Milt Wagner's son, Dajuan Wagner, scored 100 points in a single game in 2001 against Camden County Tech and was the No. Ellis teamed with future Wichita State guard Evan Wessel and future West Virginia running back Dreamius Smith to win four consecutive state championships from 2009 to 2012 under the leadership of head coach Joe Auer. And they went 4-20. Not by a long shot. 3 overall, but he refused to play for Utah and was traded to the Atlanta Hawks a few months later. Few high school big men in history can hold a candle to Philadelphia Simon Gratz High star Rasheed Wallace, who averaged 16 points, 15 rebounds and 7 blocks per game as a senior in 1992-93. Langdon was a McDonald's All-American, a three-time All-American at Duke and played three seasons in the NBA. All-Time Top 50 Men's List. Bloomington South is a great example of a team that didn't necessarily need to overpower teams with size to win a lot of games, going undefeated and winning a coveted Indiana state championship. After not winning a state title since 1943 before Bryant led them to the title in 1996, they added two more since then, in 2006 and 2013. We conclude our 2021-22 preseason FAB 50 National Team Rankings powered by Ballislife.com with an in-depth look at the nation's top 15 teams. While the greatest player in Inglewood High history is undoubtedly Basketball Hall of Famer Paul Pierce, the greatest team tag belongs to the 1979-80 squad. Wootten died in January 2020, at 88 years old. One year later, head coach Kevin Boyle left TPS to become the new coach at Montverde Academy. He also set the NYC scoring record and went 79-2 in those three seasons, with two national championships and one national runner-up finish. The Patrick School finished No. They lost one game all year, but it was just the second game of the season. Buckner, who was also the Illinois Player of the Year in football, also won a gold medal in the Olympics, led Indiana to an undefeated NCAA championship season in 1976 and won an NBA championship with the Boston Celtics. During his NBA career, Bridgeman began buying up fast-food restaurants and started a catering/events service an empire that eventually made him one of the richest men in America, with an estimated $600 million fortune. The 6-foot-10 forward has the skills of a guard and has shown he can compete with the league's best if not for his proclivity for injuries. The best of the bunch was Larry Hollyfield, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward who won eight consecutive championships during his career four at Compton High, one California juco title in an unbeaten season at Compton Junior College, then three consecutive national championships at UCLA. East's star player on the latest state championship team was Hasaan Herrington, who led his team to an undefeated season and signed with NCAA Division II University of Texas-Tyler, where the head coach is former East star Louis Wilson. Vandivier ranks as the first great player in Indiana basketball history, leading Franklin's Wonder Five to three-straight titles in the early 1920s and earning all-state honors each time. Emery and Haws both went on to play for BYU, where Haws was a two-time All-WCC selection. The last state championships for Raytown South came with the undefeated team in 1989-90, but legendary head coach Bud Lathrop coached until 2006. Jayson Tatum wasn't the first player out of Chaminade Prep to go No. MaxPreps said Lone Peak High was the top public school team in the country in 2012-13. Unfortunately for Simon Gratz High, the school became known for more than its basketball talent throughout the 1980s and 1990s, when it was a perennial member of the Persistently Dangerous Schools List. Inglewood has not played for a state championship since its undefeated team won it all in 1980. Key players: Howard Porter, Hugh Yancy, Arthur Johnson. First appearance: March 8, 1949. Ellis Johnson was the star for Ashland and went on to become the first All-American for legendary head coach Adolph Rupp at the University of Kentucky while also starring in football, baseball, and track and field. That was when superstar junior guard Jalen Rose led them to the first of back-to-back state titles. Chris Bosh played one season at Georgia Tech before he was the No. Morgan Wootten coached DeMatha Catholic for 46 years, leading the school to five national championships and 33 Washington Catholic Athletic Conference titles. 2 recruit in the country depending on which service you looked at, and ended up playing alongside the guy he shared those top rankings with at the University of North Carolina Simon Gratz High's Rasheed Wallace. Key players: Jerry Stackhouse, Jeff McGinnis, Mark Blount, Makhtar Ndiaye, Alex Sanders, Curtis Staples, Jermaine Smith, Mike Brittain, Tavares Johnson. Being in the stands for a Flint Northwestern High basketball game in the mid-1980s must have been a treat. Ballislife.com - Ballislife.com is your 1 stop shop for everything basketball! After Thompson won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics as a player, he coached at Georgetown for 27 seasons and became the first Black head coach to win an NCAA championship in 1984. Randolph went on to star for Michigan State and played in the NBA for 18 seasons, where he averaged 16.9 points and 9.1 rebounds for his career and racked up $195.5 million in career earnings. No story about Camden High basketball is complete with mentioning the Wagner family three generations of elite basketball talent to walk the halls. Peoria Manual closed out the year with its fourth straight championship and was led in scoring by head coach Wayne McClain's son, Sergio McClain. You could take the frontcourt from Archbishop John Carroll High's 1958-59 squad and line it up against any high school team in the country today and come out on top. He teamed with Conley to lead Ohio State to the 2007 NCAA championship game, and the two were picked No. George McGinnis scored 148 points in his last four games of the 69-state tournament for a 37-point average. Attucks went 62-1 over the last two seasons with Robertson as its star. 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