Sentences with phrase «school basketball talent»

If LaVar Ball really wants to get the JBA flooded with legitimate high school basketball talent, he's going to have to get his hands dirty and talk to these kids face to face.

Not exact matches

For girls especially, a freshman with talent will be on varsity, so often the JV team is made up of young women who just want to see what high school basketball is like — and most of them discover it's harder than they thought.

If he's successful, and this appears to be a viable path for players who want to turn pro out of high school, this could be a positive development for the NBA — which doesn't want to change the age limit, but does want talent in the G League — and for college basketball.

In early August, Pittsburgh coach Ralph Willard hired Troy Weaver, whose only coaching experience had been with an AAU program in Washington, D.C. Weaver had several Division I prospects in his program, including 6» 9» senior Attila Cosby, whom he helped place at Oak Hill Academy, a school in Mouth of Wilson, Va., known for its basketball talent, and who suddenly looks like a lock for Pitt.

Diverse though his experiences may have been — the lanky Gorham, towering 6 foot, 5 inches, was previously a professional basketball player, a supermarket clerk, an art school student and a construction worker — he was not a perfumer, nor did he think he had the talent or the patience for the intensive training required to become one.

Turning point occurs when an exclusive Manhattan prep school recruits Jamal for his basketball talent and his academic achievement, and he seeks Forrester's help in dealing with the new environment, becomes a reluctant hero and Jamal gradually becomes committed not only to his own writing, but to cracking Forrester's shell.

Public education doesn't use a «draft» to match new teachers with schools, but in both teaching and basketball, there's a labor market with a supply of, and demand for, new talent.