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The following press release just came through on the wire…

Following in the shoes of Jordan Brand Classic alumni Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony, LeBron James,Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin, the next generation of basketball’s brightest stars will take the floor in the 11th annual Jordan Brand Classic at Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte on Saturday, April 14th. The Jordan Brand Classic will be nationally televised live on ESPN. MORE >

Words. Bryan Horowitz

Shabazz Muhammad certainly knows how to leave a lasting impression.

With about 30 seconds left in Bishop Gorman’s 73-65 victory over No. 5 Dematha at the Hoophall Classic on Monday, the No. 1 player in the Class of 2012 punctuated a 37-point performance with a sensational windmill dunk, later named No. 3 on SportsCenter’s Top 10 plays. Even Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, sitting two seats down from Kentucky counterpart John Calipari on the baseline, raised an eyebrow. MORE >

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St. Anthony’s (Jersey City, N.J.) pummeled Newark Central last night, 78-21. The real story of the night thous is that 6-8 UCLA commit – and No. 5 on our HSH Top 50 Player Rankings – Kyle Anderson scored the 1,000th point of his St. Anthony’s career.

The milestone basket came as part of his 20 on the night. Watch the bucket below: MORE >

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When you’re in high school, very things are more important than popularity. It doesn’t matter if you’re a mathlete or one of the best basketball players in the country – eveyone wants to be popular.

ESPN has recruited eight of the nation’s tophigh school boys’ basketball players (all featured in our own Top 50) and given them an opportunity to showcase their personalities and skills to see which player is the most popular among high school basketball fans nationwide. MORE >

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With the official start of the high school basketball season just over the horizon, we thought it was time to update HighSchoolHoop.com’s rankings of the Top 50 Players in the Country.

We took into consideration everything that has gone down since the last time we released these rankings – the closeout of the high school season, AAU, summer camps, and everything else – to produce the most comprehensive Top 50 you will find anywhere online. Our rankings are simple: These are the Top 50 players in high school basketball, regardless of class. MORE >

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Seven of the Top Nine Teams in ESPN’s Fab 50 Rankings to Compete In the Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2012 Spalding Hoophall Classic in January

Expanding to five days with 46 teams in its 11th year, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame’s 2012 Spalding Hoophall Classic, presented by Big Y World Class Markets, will once again be held at Springfield College’s Blake Arena from January 12-16 during Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend. The nationally renowned event will showcase some of the top high school basketball teams from across the nation. MORE >