Daron Russell Cuts to Six, Plans Visits
Daron "Fatts" Russell, the 5-foot-10 Class of
BY ADAM ZAGORIA & CHIP MILLER
Tremont Waters, one of the top point guards in the Class of 2017, has set three official visits and has two more available.
“The dates we’re not going to announce right now for several reasons, but he is going to make official visits to Georgetown, Kansas and Indiana,” Ed Waters told Peegs.com.
“Those three are schools we are definitely going to be visiting then we have to figure out the last two based on the relationships.”
The 5-foot-11 Waters recently cut his list to UConn, Duke, Georgetown, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Yale.
By JOSH NEWMAN
Critiqued for its perceived lack of dominance despite winning Group A, the United States saved its best for last on Sunday in the gold medal game.
Kevin Durant continued a career full of monster gold medal games, finishing with 30 points on 10-for-19 shooting and four assists to lead the Americans to a 96-66 throttling of Serbia on Sunday afternoon in Rio de Janeiro. The gold medal is the United States’ third straight and sixth in the last seven Olympics.
Playing in his record fourth and final Olympics, the Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony became the third American men’s basketball player to win three gold medals. His first Olympics, the infamous 2004 Athens Games, yielded a bronze.
“We fought, it wasn’t always pretty,” a clearly emotional Anthony said on NBC shortly after the final buzzer. “We came together July 17 and we all committed for this one reason. It was a special moment for me.
“This is the end, this is it for me. I committed to this in ’04. I’ve seen the worst and I’ve seen the best, and I stuck with it, we stuck with it. I’m here today, three gold medals later.”
NEW YORK — Hamidou Diallo knows that the reputation of New York City basketball is down.
That narrative has spun through multiple stories across the past several years.
But the 6-foot-6 Queens, N.Y., native is not buying it — and he plans on using Saturday night’s Under Armour Elite 24 Game (ESPNU, 7:30) to remind basketball fans just what New York has produced.
“People say New York City basketball is down, but you can see out here that that’s false,” Diallo, who helped the NY Rens reach the quarterfinals of the Peach Jam on the Nike EYBL circuit, told me on Friday at the Gauchos Gym. “I’m definitely looking to show out for the crowd, for my hometown. This could possibly be the last time I’m playing in the city so I’m definitely looking to show out and put on for the city.”
Nick Richards, a 6-11 big man from Brooklyn who normally plays with Expressions Elite on the Nike circuit, also crossed over to Under Armour for this game so he could rep his hometown. The game will be played in Brooklyn.
“I wanted to represent my hometown New York,” Richards said. “I just wanted to play in a different event, a different environment.”
All told, eight of the 24 players in the game come from New York and New Jersey, and that doesn’t include Delaware native Trevon Duval, who played some high school ball at St. Benedict’s Prep in Newark and is now seeking another prep stop.
Aside from Diallo (Putnam Science Academy) and Richards (St. Patrick’s), New York will be represented by Moses Brown of Queens (Archbishop Molloy), Isaiah Washington of Harlem (St. Raymond’s) and Sid Wilson of The Bronx (Brewster Academy).
The New Jersey contingent includes three players from the Sports U U16 team that won an Under Armour Association championship this summer — Naz Reid, Louis King and Jahvon Quinerly. Reid plays for Roselle Catholic, while Quinerly and King attend Hudson Catholic.
NEW YORK — Trevon Duval hasn’t always been associated with the Under Armour brand.
Two years ago, he was a key player on the Nike-sponsored NY Playaz team that won the prestigious Peach Jam thanks to the inspired play of current Kentucky guard Isaiah Briscoe.
But across the last two years, perhaps no player has become more synonymous with the emerging Under Armour grassroots brand than the 6-foot-3 Duval.
One year after impressing NBA scouts at the Elite 24 Game, Duval is back again as arguably the centerpiece of Saturday night’s nationally televised affair (ESPNU, 7:30 p.m.).
Both Jamal Mashburn and Tony Delk told SNY.tv this week that it’s only a matter of time before Duval ends up in the NBA.
So, does Duval feel that he represents a major piece of the Under Armour brand?
