By ADAM ZAGORIA
Five-star guard Brayden Burries is closing in on his college announcement and will declare “sometime next week,” ESPN’s Paul Biancardi said during the McDonald’s All-American Game.
The 6-foot-4 combo guard from Eleanor Roosevelt (CA) is working with a Top 5 of USC, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Alabama.
Arizona commit Koa Peat has been in his ear during the McDonald’s preparations, while USC pledge Alijah Arenas wants Burries to stay home.
Burries said Monday that Arizona coach Tommy Lloyd told him they could have “one of the top freshman classes coming in” if he joins Peat.
“He feels like I have a great chance with Caleb [Love] leaving that I can have a big impact on the team and a big role,” he said.
As for USC, Burries said Arenas and Coach [Eric] Musselman “have been getting on me about staying home, which I feel it’s a good thing to just be able to stay home and go back home whenever you want.”
Said Arenas: “I feel like he would just be a big impact no matter where he goes. He’s an amazing, special player, and I feel like wherever his talent goes, it really just impacts the game, the team, the environment.”
As for his skill set, “Burries is a big-bodied scoring guard and three-level threat….He was a downhill playmaker at an early age, but has developed some real feel and craft as a creator,” ESPN’s Adam Finklestein said. “He can elongate his strides at the end of his drives, has a terrific left hand as both a driver and a finisher, good body control, and can rise-up to hammer big dunk on unsuspecting defenders.”
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