"He very easily could have played overseas," says Jackson, now an . DiFrancesco notices that Randle's takeoff and landing appear normal, that he suffered no mid-air collision in between. Although LeBron James, Sebastian Telfair, Dwight Howard , an Ohio player now unkown named Chris Poellnitz, and Dwain Williams had the most hype. Some kids prefer the smooth Kobe fade-away, while some are drawn to the swagger of the Allen Iverson step-over. Before he joined the Lakers, DiFrancesco worked at an outpatient physical therapy clinic outside Boston. CHRIS MILLS-KEN.,ARI./CLE, NY In the past decade, the aforementioned three shoe brands have launched circuits. High-Major (Power-Five): 66.4% But even that anecdotal information is alarming enough that the NBA and USA Basketball, in October 2016, unveiled its first-ever guidelines for youth basketball, which recommend, among other strictures, delaying specialization for young players in basketball until they're 14 or older; limiting high-density scheduling based on age-appropriate guidelines through high school; and ensuring rest from organized basketball at least one day a week and extended time away each year. Renardo Sidney - Mississippi State. The strenuous work, mental fatigue, and overall culture of this kind of league take away from the sport that its players love and cherish. Mayo and Bill Walker were freaks in high school. Now, seconds stretch into eternity before his right leg is stabilized in an air cast and teammates load him onto a stretcher, which disappears into a tunnel. . For grades 9 through 12, the recommendations are two to three games per week; 90-120 minutes per practice; and three to four practices per week. And Kevin love played as well. High school basketball still provides an attractive avenue for mid-level recruits, and the popularity of digital . a couple of points. That team featured the best shot blocker in the country Nerlens Noel(Kentucky, 76ers), Wayne Selden(Kansas,Grizzlies) All American Georges Niang(Iowa State, Pacers), Goodluck Okonoboh(UNLV), Jake Layman(Maryland, Trailblazers), team was run by Rene Castro(Butler, Duquesne) who had the best turnover/assist ratio in the EYBL league that summer. Whether you want to become a better infielder, develop your bunt technique or increase pitching power, youll find videos, articles and interviews with some of the games top minds to help you become a better player. Louisiana Spartans were the best ever. An X-ray would later find that Randle had suffered a "stress reaction," a precursor to a stress fracture but without the break. Taylor King - Duke, Villanova. I don't know what can be done.". Almost every aspiring hooper imitated MJ in some way. Its not that Porter wasnt good enough to play AAUplenty of teams wouldve loved to have him. Demar Johnson and James White were high wire acts that engulfed crowds across America. Other (Foreign, Prep to Pro, etc. For more lacrosse training, nutrition and gear advice from the nations top coaches and players, see our lacrosse training videos. 7.0% (35/500), % of NBA players from Independent alumni He even outscored Kevin Durant 33 to 14, while Ty Lawson seemed to be missing, on ESPN his senior year as his 2 man team beat #1 Nationally ranked Oak Hill. Spencer Hawes was the most dominating center on the circuit at the time, dominating the inside scoring load. As ridiculous as it sounds, professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics, Jaylen Brown was once at risk of not making the NBA draft because he was considered "too smart.". yall forgot about that 1989 GAUCHOS AAU TEAM.PG-ARNOLD A-TRAINBERNARD,SG-ADRIAN "RED"AUTRY,SF-JAMAL MASHBURN,PF-KARLTON"DUNCAN HINES"HINES,C-CONRAD MCCRAE AND THE BENCH WAS DEEP. Chip Schaefer, the Bulls' director of performance health, refers to this trope as "millennial bashing" -- and this from the man who served as the head athletic trainer during the Bulls' 1990-98 heyday, when they were led by the standard-bearer for NBA toughness: Michael Jordan. The Flint Affiliation organization as a whole deserves mention here. My shooting, my ball-handling, a lot of footwork. Won plenty of state titles. O.J. Jarvis Crittenton - Georgia Tech, NBA. HM: 73% (27/37) What about the Atlanta Celtics team with Ronald Blackshear,Jermaine Jones,Donnell Harvey an I forget the others.I think they had another NBA player on the squad.Blackshear played overseas for years after getting cut by the Knicks.Jones played for years in the NBA an Harvey was also a lottery pic.That team won a ton of games an championships an was one of the Celtics best teams ever! 1994 New Jersey Patterson AAU - Kobe Bryant - NBA. Notable players, Eddy Curry 70 Mitch Johnson - Stanford.Best team ever assembled in the great basketball state of Washington. They dont know the fundamentals of the game. The Municipal Gardens 1990 AAU team won the 19 and under National Championship, played at the Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, Fla. Below is a look at the AAU summer event schedule, highlighted by the AAU Super Showcase July 8-11 in Orlando. P2P: 2.8% (1/35), Independent Taylor King who was a grade school legend, lit up the outside for SCA. It was noticed in Santa Barbara, California, where teenagers now head into the P3 Applied Sports Science Lab, a training center that specializes in advanced athlete assessment, and P3 officials are alarmed by what they see. 6. You might as well throw out all those teams (including #1) with players from multiple states. In 2017-18, the number of NBA games lost to injury or illness surpassed the 5,000 mark for the first time since the league stopped using the injured reserve list prior to the 2005-06 campaign, per certified athletic trainer Jeff Stotts, who has cataloged the careers of more than 1,100 players since that point and is considered the most authoritative public resource for tracking injuries in the NBA. . We can safely say the MVP will come from a group of five: Joki, the Bucks' Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Mavericks' Luka Doncic, the 76ers' Joel Embiid, and the Celtics' Tatum. Take your game to the next level with softball drills and workouts at STACK.com. Riverside Church 1987 Kenny Anderson was a magician as he fed Malik Sealy, Adrain Autry, and Brian Reese. P3 founder Dr. Marcus Elliott calls basketball "the hardest sport on the human body, where issues -- biomechanical problems -- manifest as injuries, manifest as shortened careers, more so than any other the other sports that we work in." Lebron could have beat them single handedly. He quickly made a name for himself as one of the best players in the state, and AAU teams were clamoring for his services. It broke up the monotony, but also cross-trained them after years of hyperfocus on basketball. Featuring three future NBA All Stars Riverside Church was the most dominant team in the 1990s. You see kind of the good outcome, which is improved skill, improved athleticism. Kevin Wayne Durant was born just outside of the nation's capital, in Suitland, Maryland, on September 29, 1988. Can you shoot properly? Or, to put it another way: enough games to encompass more than 12 NBA seasons. ?. Check out a full list of events below, followed by the complete list of NBA/AAU alumni broken down by team: Breakdown of 500 AAU/grassroots alumni across the entire NBA: % of NBA players that are Nike EYBL alumni, % of NBA that played pre-circuit (grad before 2011), Breakdown of the Circuit Eligible American-born NBA (Grad 2011 or Later), % of Nike Circuit era players (grad 2011 or later), % of Adidas Circuit era players (grad 2011 or later), % of UAA circuit era players (grad 2011 or later), % of independent AAU players (grad 2011 or later), BREAKDOWN: AAU/GRASSROOTS ALUMNI IN THE NBA, Who did they run with? Thats something I prided myself on, getting that extra time in the gym, working on ball-handling, working on my footwork around the rim, things like that. Kendall Smith - UNLV.Won the 2012 Nike Peach Jam behind the play of big 3 Gordon, Bird and Johnson. There already is a Finals MVP, the two are not linked. His mother, Elnora, was an all-state basketball player for Scott County in the mid 80s. That makes the 24-year-old Washington Wizards forward something of an anomaly in today's NBA. I feel like the 2006 D-1 Greyhounds out of Cincinnati should be on this list. Most players have been playing basketball for a while and use the program to acquire an experience from an elite level of competition that they won't get in their community. Considered by many the great AAU team ever assembled. Jerry Stackhouses AAU team was legendary. But the brakes, the suspension -- their ankles, hips and core -- while often neglected, remain tasked with enduring the brunt of the body's force. By The Circuit Staff, 06/10/21, 6:00PM CDT. Won every major AAU Event (super showcase, Nationals) Boo williams, Nike memorial day invitational etc. Former Lakers head athletic trainer Gary Vitti, who spent 32 years with the team, says the Showtime Lakers "hardly played any basketball" when the season ended: "As soon as the season was over, everybody would take at least minimum two weeks, two to three weeks off, give their bodies a rest, let them recover, and then slowly we would do either some jogging or biking and some strength training.". Kendrick Perkins - NBA. Power dunker Arthur Long Cincinnati Bearcats) as well as East High Star Terrence jud Mitchell (Seminole Juco Star along with Michael Sheppard. You will also see a player's pre-draft team . Vashon Leonard, Howard isley and 5 other gifted kids. Just as impressive was that they were able to keep the team together as long as they did! The so cal Team lost in the final four to blessed ijn. His eyes are wet with tears. Proper nutrition provides athletes with the energy, nutrients and hydration they need to progress in their training and perform optimally. OJ Fisher you are correct! Next Bill Russell. And he, too, uses car analogies to describe today's young NBA players, referencing mileage. We are AAU HISTORY, Louisiana Spartans won 6 nationals in a row, whoever made this list dont know shit, only going off of current nba players, How do you not include Mark Titus as a notable player of the Indy Heat? Back then we had: Jordan Clarkson- NBA COLLEGE/PRO 2006 Mt.Royal (baltimore)16u Micha Downs - Kansas, Gonzaga, Europe. 2006 Southern California All-Stars - Kevin Love - UCLA, NBA. 14.2% (71/500), % of NBA that played pre-circuit (grad before 2011) After checking out the baseball workouts on STACK.com, browse through the articles and videos below for drills, advice, and motivation from some of the nations top coaches, college baseball programs, and elite athletes. In addition to off-season lacrosse workouts, youll find plenty of on-the-field drill for all lacrosse positions. Another great team in its time. Some of you out there in the Bayou might know for sure. Want to play on the next level? Juan Dixon- Maryland, NBA And that transition is a steep one: In his first NBA season, a rookie might play in as many as 100 games, including exhibition, regular-season and postseason, after playing a third of that in a college or high school season. That is not true about the #9 team on your list. And just as there is a new basketball culture, there is a new type of basketball player. And a lot of them don't make it out to the other side." Born on October 24, 1996, the 21-year old athlete attended Joseph Wheeler High School, located in Marietta, Georgia. Picking the right AAU/grassroots program is important. 2012 Oakland Soldiers - Aaron Gordon - Arizona, NBA. BABC: Nerlens, MCW, Shelden, Goodluck, Niang, Pressey, Bull, want me to keep going? Couldnt believe they werent on this list. Kevin Braswell- Georgetown, Europe Jokic has 100th triple-double; Nuggets down Rockets 133-112 Nikola Jokic recorded his 100th career triple-double and Jamal Murray had 32 points as the Denver Nuggets coasted to a 133 . Not only did we beat LeBrons team, we beat Dwights team as well. It was noticed in Los Angeles, where teenagers now make up the majority of the injured population that files into the Movement Performance Institute, a sports science laboratory focused on injury prevention and recovery. THE MOST COMMON explanation is as lazy as it is popular: Players today just aren't as tough as their NBA forefathers. The best 4th quarter player and possibly hardest to guard player the league has ever seen ( With the exception of MJ), Louis Lou Will Williams will go down as a legend in his own and nobody will ever match his unique skillset. James White - Florida, Cincinnati, NBA. As far as star power while still in high school, I dare put many teams from New York ahead of them. Team Tools Team Season Finder Search through team season stats spanning from 1946-47 to today for seasons that match your criteria. Officials from one of the most prestigious teams on the Nike EYBL circuit estimate that someone who played consistently between 7 and 19 -- over a span of 13 years -- could easily play more than 1,000 organized games (which doesn't include club-team practices, or pickup games, or workouts with trainers). C. J. In Part 2 of this two-part series, ESPN reveals how doctors, trainers and surgeons are being forced to rebuild the world's best young basketball players. This is particularly impressive considering that 20% of the league played before the wide-spread acceptance of the shoe circuits in 2010 (over the age of 28). He adds, "What they put their bodies through is so rigorous. What about the Louisiana Spartans? True to form, Porter spent much of the offseason working on defense. NBA News. 1998 DC Assault - Dermarr Johnson - Cincinnati, NBA. Compare the statistics of up to six players through (or in) a given season (1946-47 to today). long-standing AAU programs such as E1T1, Team Final, and California . Theres a legitimate argument for this Choz team to be the #1 AAU team of all-time, it was a special club. It consisted of Alan Henderson,(I.U. Those two teams were the top two in Ohio and HATED each other, so you better believe that every single Ohio AAU person was at the game when it went down. Of those 305 players, 77.1% played on a modern-day shoe circuit - 53.4% from the EYBL, 12.2%from adidas 3SSB, and 11.5% from UAA. (Loaded) the whole Purdue Team moore, martin, hummell. Lou had the most confidence and swag. After factoring out foreign talent, that left 305 NBA players that fit that description. Barely lost that summer. Across all the tourneys we played in those years, I think we lost 4 games out of hundreds 1 to Riverside Church, 1 to some team from Detroit, 1 to a team from Baltimore in the 99 National Championship, and I think 1 to the NJ Boys/Girls club. Mike Miller When Lebron James showed that had three of the top 10 players in the entire nation. But then he takes a detour and begins addressing something else: youth basketball and injuries -- almost as if he has something he wants to get off his chest. "What our orthopedics are telling us," Silver says, "is they're seeing wear-and-tear issues in young players that they didn't used to see until players were much older.". Eric Barkley - St Johns, NBA . Unlike LeBron and the others who either were Goliath like human specimans or total flops, Louis has now become who those around him saw as a pre-teen/teenager reluctantly due to sounding crazy saw in the kid. Just something to consider. Hard nosed forward Jon Brockman did the dirty work for FOH. Illinois Warriors program from 1995-1998 Bey Mousa Kieta Syracuse, Europe Learn how elite athletes supercharge their performance by following scientifically-supported nutrition strategies. "That was it," he says. No. Hardaway (hamstring) contributed 22 points (7-12 FG, 6-11 3Pt, 2-3 FT) and one rebound over 26 minutes during Thursday's 142-116 victory over the Spurs . (I was able to put) a variety of different things into my game and fine-tune what I was about and what my game was about, Porter told STACK. They won 2 AAU national championships as stated by Kevin Freeman. Hes finally panning out like those lucky enough to cross the youngster thought he just might. MM: 12.5% 20/159 Malik Story - USCOnly two losses in 2006 and both came without Kevin Love. 1. "We would joke that half of these athletes are so good that they could almost out-jump their ability to land," says Blase, who is now Fusionetics' director of professional and collegiate team services. Daequan Cook: One and Done college player that went to Ohio State with Oden and Conley. Trust. NBA Players Who Attended Thomas Jefferson Sidney Green, left, played 679 games in the NBA. The star for the Lakers, scoring almost a point a minute off the bench after staying in the 6th man of year race for 7 straight years, post-Kobe he is showing out. We had a team for every age group at AAU AND YBOA NATL tournaments. Quinn Smith (Seton Hall- St Bonnies) and. M Squad ARC 1991 chris mills arizona, nba, McDonalds all American the super friends ran michigan hoops in the 1990-99 era. (And in contrast to the myth that has grown around him, Jordan, Blase notes, didn't treat every practice as if it were Game 7: "There were days when Michael would show up, put ice on his knees, go smoke a cigar and then go play 18 holes of golf. By 17, celebrities were nightly spectators at South Gwinnetts HS games, with his top Fans being Jermaine Dupri, Michael Vick, and close friend Bow Wow. "It's getting significantly worse," Clark says, "because kids are specializing at such a young age and they're not recovering.". Here is the breakdown of the 305 American-born NBA players & where they played grassroots basketball: % of NBA players that are Nike EYBL alumni Top 15 5 star player in the country coming out HS (247 sports). 10. (80s and 90s teams included). allaninq 3 yr. ago. 33% (163/500), % of NBA players that are adidas alumni (I learned) the game from my mother and father, and I have so many uncles that I learned from. "It's an epidemic," says Leo Papile, who founded and has coached the Boston Amateur Basketball Club on Nike's Elite Youth Basketball League circuit -- arguably the most prestigious grassroots circuit -- for four decades. Vince Carter - North Carolina, NBA. No explanation. Looks like we have some reordering to do, and a top 25 to put out in a couple weeks. Witnessed it first hand on and off the court. Kevin Love playing with SoCal? http://articles.dailypress.com/1992-07-26/sports/9207260235_1_hampton-roads-allen-iverson-williams. This team either won or went to the championship of every major tournament entered in a 2 year stretch. Jay Straight 6- Wyoming The exception to this rule are usually international players who did not grow up in the United States. Basketball Schedules - NBA, NCAA, G League, International, National, AAU, High School Schedules - RealGM Luke Douglas Kennard (born June 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In a series of studies in 2017 and 2018, a team of researchers working with the University of Wisconsin's David Bell, a professor in its Department of Kinesiology's Athletic Training Program and the director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory, found that while most youth athletes today believe specialization increases their performance and chances of making a college team, the majority of those who reached Division I level didn't classify as highly specialized at the high school level. AAU is not a program for beginners. These kids, he thinks to himself, are ticking time bombs. James Augustine 610- Illinois, NBA Went on to play for multiple NBA teams. (AAU) guys spend most of their time traveling, when they can be working on their game. Jayanthi and a team of fellow researchers had reached a similar conclusion in a separate 2013 study. Oden, Conley and Cook would eventually team up at Ohio State and make it to the national championship game as freshman. The NBA brought DiFiori aboard in 2015 as its director of sports medicine; he'd been studying youth sports and overuse injuries for more than 25 years and was the lead author and led the working group that published Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. The often loaded Celtics featured 5 future NBA players and no one matched their talent level. Eric Gordon - Indiana, NBA. Donte Greene Syracuse, NBA I know Robert Whaley should remember us (commented on this feed). DALLAS -- Jason Terry has all sorts of fond memories from his AAU basketball days, like finishing fourth in the national tournament as an eighth . It doesn't teach our kids to play the game at all. How can you forget the BABC AAU NIKE EYBL National Championship team of 2011. You don't want your hoopster to get discouraged at the start. Mike King- George Washington, Europe But also parts of it are very broken, especially [as it] relates to injuries in the league. "It's very sad, where a kid has an NBA body, he's got NBA talent, he's got even an NBA mentality, but he doesn't have a body that can withstand the rigors of the training and the actual games, whether it's to get to the NBA or just to hold up. Simply put: Today's players are faster, stronger and more athletic, the product of years of weight training, speed training, vertical jump training, skills training. Pacers/Ft. All-Ohio Red 2009 - Jared Sullinger - Ohio State, NBA. The remaining 19.6% played for independent AAU programs. All home grown talent. We did great things through the 90s. Greg Oden- One of the largest High School phenoms of all time. His head coach tells him to stay strong. The All Ohio Red team lost to Cleveland Basketball Club at King James Classic. Randy Livingston played on that team. Thats why these lists are hard. The team from Washington (FOH) had 2 future NBA lottery picks (a year apart in age) on the same high school team and didnt even make the state tournament that year! Daquan Cook - Ohio State, NBA. It's Oct. 28, 2014, the Lakers' regular-season opener and the NBA debut for Julius Randle, a 6-foot-9 forward and the Lakers' first first-round pick in seven years, a foundation of their post-Kobe Bryant future. Wow this list consist of players who had names and made it to NBA that doesnt make your team great. I would also point out that before 1980, AAU (and BCI) teams traditionally were made up of one all star team from each region and they all practiced all summer. Says Clark, "All the specialization is helping the player become more skillful and more powerful and more athletic, but at the same time they're not working on the things that prevent injuries and help them recover. I guess since their players were homegrown and notflown in from different states, they dont count. 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