Bruce Kelley of The Bullis School will coach McDonalds All-American East Team - ALL-MET ELITE

Bruce Kelley 

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In addition to the 48 players selected, four prep coaches from Maryland, Illinois, Arkansas and Idaho were named coaches for the 2015 Games. John Hutchcraft of Guy-Perkins High School in Guy, Arkansas, will lead the girls East Team, while Emery Roy of Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian, Idaho, will coach the girls West Team. Bruce Kelley of Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland, will lead the boys East Team, and local Chicago coach Robert Smith of Simeon Career Academy will serve as head coach of the boys West Team.

The 2015 McDonald's All American boys team features the consensus number one player in the country, Ben Simmons (Montverde Academy - Montverde, Florida). Simmons will play for the East Team and will be joined by fellow top players Jaylen Brown (Wheeler High School - Marietta, Georgia), Isaiah Briscoe (Roselle Catholic High School - Roselle, New Jersey) and a pair of post players from Wisconsin, Diamond Stone (Dominican High School - Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin) and Henry Ellenson (Rice Lake High School - Rice Lake, Wisconsin).

The West Team will be led by top-ranked guard Malik Newman (Callaway High School - Jackson, Mississippi), Ivan Rabb (Bishop O'Dowd High School - Oakland, California) and local Chicago standout Jalen Brunson (Adlai E. Stevenson High School - Lincolnshire, Illinois) who will play in front of a hometown crowd at the United Center. Of the 24 boys selected to the team, nine have yet to make their college decisions. Of those who have decided, Louisiana State University and Duke University have the most commitments with two each. The boys game begins at 8 p.m. CT on April 1 and will be televised live on ESPN.

The POWERADE® Jam Fest -- featuring many of the McDonald's All American Games players in a skills competition, three-point shootout and dunk contest -- will be held at the Gerald Ratner Athletic Center on the campus of the University of Chicago on March 30. The competitions will air live at 7 p.m. CT on ESPN2.

2015 Slam Dunk Contest Participants Announced - VICTOR OLADIPO - ALL-MET ELITE

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Milwaukee's Giannis Antetokounmpo, Minnesota's Zach LaVine, Orlando's Victor Oladipo and Brooklyn's Mason Plumlee will be the contestants in the 2015 Sprite Slam Dunk contest, the NBA announced Tuesday night.

The dunk contest will be Feb. 14 at Barclays Center, part of NBA All-Star Weekend in New York. The All-Star Game will be Feb. 15 at Madison Square Garden.

This year's dunk contest will feature two rounds and no time limits. Each player will get two dunks in the first round, with the two players with the highest combined scores advancing to the final round. The two finalists also will get two dunks apiece in the head-to-head round.

There is a three-attempt maximum for each dunk. The event will feature five judges, who will score each dunk on a scale of 6 to 10, for a low score of 30 and a high score of 50.

The 2014 dunk contest champion was the Washington Wizards' John Wall.

ST. JOHNS HS. GUARD ANTHONY COWAN COMMITS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - ALL-MET ELITE

ST. JOHNS HS. 

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 ANTHONY COWAN

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BY PAT DONOHUE

The future of Maryland basketball just got a little brighter.

That's because St. John's College High School point guard Anthony Cowan has decided to stay home and become a Terp in 2016.

Leading the WCAC in scoring as a junior, Cowan, has been a top priority of Maryland's for quite some time and announced his commitment on Monday.

Cowan is the Terps' first commit in the Class of 2016.

"I felt comfortable and the positives overcame the negatives while thinking about the process," Cowan said as to why he ultimately chose Maryland. "I felt I had the strongest relationship with coach Turgeon and the coaching staff and already had a pretty good relationship with some of the team, and I just felt that I was ready."

"[Turgeon is] a players' coach and I trust him to make me a better player and person while playing for him," Cowan added. "As well as coach Clark and me, just talking almost once every week with him, just checking on me. So they just gave so much love to me and that's why I am so comfortable with this decision."

Cowan's familiarity with the College Park environment and the ability to continue to compete in front of family and friends on a regular basis also factored into his decision and he said he is eager to experience the excitement of playing at the Xfinity Center.

And even with other offers from DePaul, Florida State, Georgetown, George Washington, Illinois, Miami, Penn State, Rhode Island and Xavier, the appeal of being a hometown hero was too much for Cowan to turn down.

"Ever since I started going to Maryland games, their atmosphere was always eye opening for me," Cowan said. "And even though I wasn't playing, I could just feel how hype and how much energy the players would have. But I did want to play in front of my family and Maryland fans were already showing me so much love without me being committed. So yes, Maryland's atmosphere and fanbase did play a big part [in my decision]."

Cowan said that he and his family met with Mark Turgeon and Dustin Clark on Saturday morning and that he wanted to make sure he told Turgeon face to face that he is committing to Maryland.

"He just had a big smile on his face-everyone did," Cowan said.

As far as what he is looking forward to the most about becoming a Terp, Cowan said simply just getting on the floor with the team. And in the meantime, the 5-foot-11, 155-pounder said he hopes to get bigger and plans to work on becoming a more consistent jump shooter.

And with his first message to Terps fans as the newest member of the Maryland family, Cowan just wants them to be prepared.

"Just get ready because I'm staying home," Cowan said.

When Will We Stop?: The Absurdity of Youth Basketball Rankings - ALL-MET ELITE

When Will We Stop?

 The Absurdity of Youth Basketball

 Rankings 

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By Tim Casey, Special to Bleacher Report 

A few miles outside of Washington D.C., Tyisha Bogues sat in the stands watching her 10-year-old son, Sarmartine, compete in a youth basketball tournament. She wore a black long-sleeve shirt with “FATMAN MOM” and his uniform number (1) stitched across the back in red lettering.

 

Sarmartine Bogues was given his “Fatman” nickname when he was an overweight toddler. It stuck even as he was losing much of his baby fat. Yet, in some basketball circles, Sarmartine Bogues is already a household name.

During most games, he is the smallest kid on the court, but that hasn’t stopped him from adopting a style reminiscent of his grandfather, Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player (5'3") in NBA history. Bogues, a 4'6", 79-pound lefty point guard, handles the ball with confidence, plays aggressive defense, makes smart decisions and serves as the catalyst for his Baltimore-based AAU team. He’s learned valuable lessons from watching Muggsy’s old games and working out with his grandfather in Baltimore and at Muggsy’s home in Charlotte, North Carolina.

And yet, Sarmartine is immersed in a much different basketball environment than the one his grandfather experienced when he was a boy. Sarmartine’s schedule, like that of all elite youth players, is inundated with games and practices. He competes in an average of three tournaments per month from September through July, and he’s planning on playing in Louisiana, Indiana, Nevada, Georgia and Ohio over the next few months.

In October, one website, Middle School Elite, declared Bogues the second-best fourth-grader in the country. The only player ranked above him? Bronny James, LeBron James’ son.
We're talking about pre-teens, here.

Despite the questions surrounding the validity of rankings at such a young age, Sarmartine symbolizes the trend toward identifying players as prospects even before they enter junior high school. It is a competitive cottage industry for coaches and recruiting analysts vying for relationships with the next potential Division I and NBA stars.

Tyisha is accustomed to the hype. She said she gets business cards from coaches all the time trying to, in effect, recruit her son. Some say he could just play on the few weekends when BMore’s Finest (his AAU team) isn’t in a tournament, but she declines.

Muggsy has a hard time relating to his grandson’s reality. Although Muggsy was part of one of the best programs in the country in the 1980s at Dunbar High School in Baltimore on a team that included future NBA players Reggie Lewis, Reggie Williams and David Wingate, he only played in one AAU tournament and wasn’t subjected to much pressure before high school. He’s proud of Sarmartine, but he tells him not to pay attention to rankings.

“I don’t know where they get that from,” Muggsy said. “I don’t like that. It’s too early to be saying he’s the best.”
 
The Genesis
Few people understand the evolution of youth basketball more than Bob Gibbons. For more than 30 years, the University of North Carolina graduate has run his own recruiting service, evaluating high school players and selling his rankings and scouting reports to more than 100 college programs each year. Name an NBA player from the past five decades, and it’s a safe bet Gibbons saw him play in person as a teenager. He’ll rattle them off: Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, Jerry Stackhouse, Kenny Anderson, etc.

Gibbons was one of the first people to rank high school players, a practice that was once a small niche catering to college coaches and diehard fans. By the early 2000s—with the introduction of Rivals.com, Scout.com and other recruiting websites—it had become more mainstream.

In the 1970s, Gibbons said Indiana coach Bob Knight paid him $200 for a report on all of the high schoolers who were 6'9" or taller. Now, that information is much easier to find, and the barriers of entry to the business are low. Anyone with rudimentary Internet skills can create a website at little cost and start ranking players. They can then promote them for free on Facebook, Twitter and other social-media platforms.

Until a few years ago, players weren’t typically ranked until they were entering their junior and senior years of high school. Analysts were more cautious about projecting kids and presumed the public demand wasn’t there. That’s no longer the case, as even some elementary school children are now in the spotlight.

The shift concerns Gibbons. Each spring, he runs a tournament for players in grades six through 11. He’s watched middle schoolers compete, but he’s declined to rate them.
“Some (rankings) specialize in third-graders, fourth-graders, fifth-graders, sixth-graders,” Gibbons said. “It’s sort of absurd. Not sort of. It’s totally absurd. You cannot make a projection on what level of college a kid’s going to play at that young age. There’s just too many factors.”

Still, that has not stopped others from ranking kids before they enter high school. Clark Francis, who began his recruiting service, The Hoop Scoop, in 1983 after graduating from Indiana University, has ranked players as young as fourth grade for more than a decade. And he’s not about to apologize.
In the book Play Their Hearts Out, author and Sports Illustrated senior writer George Dohrmann described the close relationship between Francis and youth coach Joe Keller.

Keller promoted his players to Francis and ended up launching a series of national and regional events, including the Jr. Phenom camp that features fourth- through eighth-graders.
Francis vets the people he talks with to make sure they don’t have an agenda. He said gathering information on kids at an early age gives him an advantage over his competitors when it comes to ranking players later in high school.

“People can say, ‘When is it too early to rank players? What is the time when you should be starting to watch players?’” Francis said. “I’m like, ‘I don’t really know.’ But it’s not my job to be the adult, the counselor, the teacher, the coach, whoever it is, the street agent, whoever’s guiding that kid and has influence over that kid making the decisions in that kid’s life. ... Once you put him out there, he’s fair game for me to rank him.”
 
Way Too Subjective
As a parent of a young player, Jerry Love had followed Francis’ work and craved the attention. When his son, Jerron, began showing promise against other kids in New York, Jerry devoted his energy to promoting him.
“That day I saw him put the ball through his legs the way he put it through, and I was always keen on business. I saw a lot of money potential,” Love said. “I saw that he could make money.”

In January 2008, Jerry uploaded a video of 11-year-old Jerron on YouTube that referred to the boy as the “11th Wonder.” With Kanye West’s “Champion” as background music, Jerron is shown shooting, dribbling and passing. Father and son traveled throughout the country for tournaments and camps, and Jerry passed out DVDs of his son’s exploits to anyone interested.

Jerry also had a website (JLoveStudentAthlete.com) made for his son, although it is no longer active because he failed to pay the maintenance and hosting fees. In early 2010, Love started another website called Middle School Elite that covered youth basketball and ranked players. After Jerron played in a tournament that May in Columbus, Ohio, as a seventh-grader, the website wrote that Love “played like the world was on his shoulders and with heart the size of the continent of Africa.”
Love ranked his son as the best middle school player in the country even though he was only 5'7".

 Still, he did not reveal he was behind the website until The Wall Street Journal outed him in an article published in August 2011 ahead of Love’s freshman year of high school. The backlash was immediate and lasting. People questioned Love’s motives. To this day, he swears he launched Middle School Elite to promote all players, not just his son.

Still, the early attention has become a burden for Jerron. He is now a senior and at his fourth high school in three states in four years. He played as a freshman at Clovis West in Fresno, California, and spent his sophomore year and half of his junior year at Wheeler in Marietta, Georgia. He left Wheeler and moved back to California last winter, but he did not play basketball. This fall, he enrolled at Abraham Lincoln in Brooklyn, New York, before departing for Quality Education Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

Jerron, who has only grown to 5'10", is the 48th-ranked point guard in his class, according to ESPN, and unranked among Rivals.com's top 150 prospects. He is hoping to sign with a college in the spring, although he will likely not be playing for a major program. Jerry Love said his tactics have hurt his son.

“If we had stayed in good terms with everybody, he would've been like top-ranked,” he said. “I just was going against the grain, coming up with this middle school exposure stuff. ... I probably stepped on people’s feet. I don’t know.”
If Love knew what would happen, would he have started Middle School Elite?

“I probably would have done it, but I probably would have been a little bit more discreet with it,” Love said. “I probably wouldn’t have done it. Well, I can’t say that, but one part says that I would regret it. The other part says I did it out of just the kindness of my heart, if that makes sense.” 
 
The New Cottage Industry
Despite Love’s regrets, he continues to run Middle School Elite, and the hype surrounding players in grade school and middle school has only increased. They have no shortage of opportunities to test themselves against each other, either. During most weekends, children can compete in tournaments across the country. They travel more than some seasoned business executives and salespeople.

On the Saturday and Sunday before Thanksgiving, 84 of the top AAU teams from the East Coast gathered for the AGame Super Shootout in District Heights, Maryland, less than 10 miles outside of Washington D.C. Third- to eighth-graders faced off in a huge indoor complex in a suburban strip mall that houses 10 basketball courts. The champions in each group played five to six games over the two-day period.

Per NCAA rules, college coaches weren’t allowed to attend. In January 2009, the NCAA passed legislation that classified seventh-grade boys basketball players as prospects. At the time, players weren’t legally considered prospects until ninth grade, so college coaches worked middle school camps to develop relationships with them. Now, they can only watch seventh- and eighth-graders play during NCAA-mandated periods in the spring and July.

Still, high school coaches scouted players at the AGame Super Shootout and started building relationships they hope will lead to kids playing for them. They were mostly concerned with the seventh- and eighth-grade matchups.
In the seventh-grade final, Slam City Elite, based in Maryland, defeated Team Takeover from D.C. to continue its undefeated season. That team was the brainchild of Maryland youth coach Bill Francis.

At the AAU national tournament last summer, Francis spoke with players and parents from various clubs in Maryland, D.C. and Northern Virginia. He wanted to build an all-star team of sorts featuring the best players in the region.

Within a couple of months, he had formed Slam City Elite, which he has nicknamed “The Terror Squad.” Francis, who once worked with Love at Middle School Elite, wasn’t shy about his intentions and wasn’t popular in some circles. Some of the Slam City Elite players repeated the seventh grade so they could play for the team, a common practice among elite youth programs.

With so many clubs having older players, the AAU recently changed its eligibility rules. Starting in 2015, AAU-sanctioned tournaments will be based on age, not grade. For instance, the new legislation states kids competing in the 13-and-under tournaments can be no older than 13 on Aug. 31, 2015. Based on those rules, Slam City Elite won’t be eligible to compete in the AAU nationals because they have too many kids who are older than 13. Still, Francis is proud of his team despite others’ objections.

“There are a lot of people who, because they didn’t think it could happen, are very envious of the fact that it did happen,” Francis said. “They’ve let that be known. A lot of times we go into a gym and it’s really an us-against-the-world mentality.”

In the eighth-grade final, D.C. Premier from Washington, D.C. defeated Team Rio National from New Jersey, a squad that’s sponsored by Miami Heat guard Mario Chalmers. Team Rio played without Scottie Lewis, one of the most high-profile pre-high school players. Lewis, a skinny 6'4" guard, preferred singing, writing and art until he started playing basketball three years ago, although he’s already the muse of highlight mixtapes. A week before the tournament, he suffered an injury and had a cast on his left forearm.

At halftime, with Team Rio leading by three points, Lewis grew restless. Standing near the three-point line on the left wing, he picked up a ball and held it between his right elbow and palm. He then ran toward the hoop, protected his left arm and converted a one-handed windmill dunk. That was the extent of his activity, although he was expected to return to the lineup soon.

Lewis is receiving about as much attention as anyone his age. The first image on his Instagram page, from April 27, is a screen shot of a website, Middle School Hoops, that ranked him No. 1 in the country among seventh-graders.
“I think my rankings are well deserved, but I think they won’t matter until I’m at least a sophomore in high school,” Lewis said. “I look at the rankings, but then I don’t pay attention to ‘em. It’s fun to be at that spot that I’m at, but then I say, ‘Who cares?’”
 
Let the Kids Be Kids
After playing 14 seasons in the NBA and coaching three NBA teams, John Lucas now works with kids ranging from fourth grade to the pro level and runs camps throughout the United States. To him, ranking kids makes no sense.
“If you’re the best fourth-grader in the world, you know what that means?” Lucas said. “You get to go to the fifth grade. And guess what happens in the fifth or sixth grade. You may not grow.”

Each May, Lucas runs an international middle school event in Houston that includes 100 to 150 of the best seventh- and eighth-graders in the world. Last year, 46 players were 6'6" or taller.

Instead of running an all-star-game type of atmosphere without any structure, Lucas emphasizes skill development in a competitive environment. He and his staff teach how to play according to game situations and work on skills such as beating teams when the shot clock is winding down, running and defending against the pick-and-roll and deciding whether to continue driving to the basket or pass the ball.

“They’re very talented skill-wise,” Lucas said. “They run and jump better than each generation that comes up, but their lack of knowledge and understanding of the evolution of the game is still lacking. Although a kid is 13, he still doesn’t know how to play yet.”

Muggsy Bogues agrees with Lucas’ assessment and has a similar philosophy. During the summer, Sarmartine Bogues attends his grandfather’s camps for kids from six to 15 and stays at his home in Charlotte. Together, they watch old clips of Muggsy’s NBA games and compete in one-on-one situations and drills. Muggsy emphasizes the importance of playing pressure defense, passing the ball to teammates and having the right attitude.

“We don’t put that much pressure on him,” Muggsy said. “We let him just have fun with it.”
Shavasha Smith, Scottie Lewis’ mom, puts even more perspective on things: “If [Lewis] said to me tomorrow, ‘Mommy, I don’t want to play basketball anymore,’ I’m perfectly fine with that. Some parents, they’re just so hard on their kids. The kid has to love what they’re doing. As long as he enjoys doing it, I’m happy with it.”

2015 McDonald's All American Games Nominees - ALL-MET ELITE WEST VIRGINIA EDITION

2015

 McDonald's All American Games 

Nominees -

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WEST VIRGINIA

First Last School Name City State

DIKEMBE DIXSON

MINGO CENTRAL HS.

MATEWAN WEST VA.

First Last School Name City State

1. Thomas Bryant Huntington Prep Huntington WV
2. Levi Cook Huntington Prep Huntington WV
3. Dikembe Dixson Mingo Central High School Matewan WV
4. Ted Kapita Huntington Prep Huntington WV
5. Ronshad Shabazz St. Joseph Catholic School Huntington WV

2015 McDonald's All American Games Nominees - ALL-MET ELITE WASHINGTON D.C. EDITION

2015 

McDonald's All American Games 

Nominees 

 ALL-MET ELITE 

WASHINGTON D.C. EDITION 

BRYANT CRAWFORD

GONZAGA HS.

WASHINGTON D.C.

First Last School Name City State

1. Jordan Barr Maret Washington DC DC
2. Bryant Crawford Gonzaga College High School Washington DC
3. Jabari Greenwood Gonzaga College High School Washington DC
4. Sam Miller Gonzaga College High School Washington DC
5. Alex Peltier Maret Washington DC DC
6. Ritchie Petitbon Gonzaga College High School Washington DC
7. Max Steiner Maret Washington DC DC
8. Robert Austin Vereen Maret Washington DC DC
9. Sean Williams Gonzaga College High School Washington DC

2015 McDonald's All American Games Nominees - ALL-MET ELITE VIRGINIA EDITION

2015 

McDonald's All American Games

 Nominees 

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VIRGINIA EDITION 

VIRGINIA

OUMAR BARRY 
BISHOP O'CONNELL HS.
ARLINGTON VA.

First Last School Name City State

1. Dwayne Bacon Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
2. Oumar Barry Bishop O'Connell High School Arlingotn VA
3. Chris Clarke Cape Henry Collegiate School Virginia Beach VA
4. Warren Craft Fleming High School Roanoke VA
5. Eric Dunbar Bishop O'Connell High School Arlingotn VA
6. Devenir Duruisseau Fishburne Military School Waynesboro VA
7. Marcus Evans Cape Henry Collegiate School Virginia Beach VA
8. Andrew Fleming Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
9. Daniel Giddens Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
10. Collin Goss St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School Alexandria VA
11. Franklin Howard Paul VI High School Fairfax VA
12. Jamaal King Bishop O'Connell High School Arlingotn VA
13. Travis Light St. Stephen's and St. Agnes School Alexandria VA
14. Trevor Manuel Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
15. Terence Phillips Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
16. Danjel Purifoy Hargrave Military Academy Chatham VA
17. Joshua Reaves Oak Hill Academy Mouth of Wilson VA
18. Siyao Sun Bishop O'Connell High School Arlington VA
19. Kenny Williams Lloyd C. Bird High School Chesterfield VA
20. Brandon Kamga South Lakes High School Reston VA

2015 McDonald's All American Games Nominees - ALL-MET ELITE MARYLAND EDITION

2015 

McDonald's All American Games

 Nominees 

ALL-MET ELITE 

MARYLAND EDITION 

KENNETH WORMLEY 

RIVERDALE BAPTIST HS.

UPPER MARLBORO MD.

First Last School Name City State

1. DeQuan Abrom Riverdale Baptist Upper Marlboro MD
2. Austin Duffy Clarksburg High School Clarksburg MD
3. Drew Edwards Calvert Hall College High School Baltimore MD
4. Justin Jenifer Milford Mill Academy Baltimore MD
5. Nelson Jones Clarksburg High School Clarksburg MD
6. Elijah Long The John Carroll School Bel Air MD
7. Kimbal Mackenzie The John Carroll School Bel Air MD
8. Xavier McCants Sherwood High School Sandy Spring MD
9. Develle Phillips Clinton Christian School Upper Marlboro MD
10. Randall Broddie Potomac High School Oxon Hill MD
11. Justin Robinson St. James School High School Hagerstown MD
12. Mychal Stefanides C. Milton Wright High School Bel Air MD
13. Charlie Thomas River Hill High School Clarksville MD
14. Kenneth Wormley Riverdale Baptist Upper Marlboro MD
15. Delvidas Zemgulls St. Mary's Ryken Catholic High School Leonardtown MD

JEFF GREEN TO BE TRADED TO MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES? - ALL-MET ELITE

JEFF GREEN

 TO BE TRADED 

TO 

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HYATTSVILLE MD.

On Friday, as ESPN.com first reported, Boston and Memphis came to terms on the larger elements of a deal, with the Celtics agreeing to send Green to the Grizzlies for Tayshaun Prince's $7.7 million expiring contract and a future first-round pick.

The Jeff Green-to-Grizzlies deal now involves the Pelicans, who are set to send Austin Rivers to the Celtics.

The Grizzlies have long targeted Green -- and felt they were close to acquiring him last season as part of the trade that brought Courtney Lee to Memphis -- but needed a third team involved to shed more salary in this transaction to avoid luxury-tax complications. So they turned to the Pelicans, who have long been interested in Pondexter.

NIKE BASKETBALL 2015 BHM COLLECTION KD 7 - KEVIN DURANT - ALL-MET ELITE

NIKE BASKETBALL

2015 

BHM COLLECTION 

KD 7

 KEVIN DURANT 

ALL-MET ELITE 

MONTROSE CHRISTIAN HS.

ROCKVILLE MD.

Nike Basketball officially unveils the 2015 BHM Collection. Included in this set is the LeBron 12, Kobe 9 Elite, KD 7, and Kyrie 1, with all four signature models unified with a black/white aesthetic inspired by the strength and determination of six athletes and coaches of Nike’s history. 

The BHM Collection will launch at select Nike Basketball retailers on January 17th so get an official look at the four models below and stay tuned for more of the 2015 BHM Collection from Nike and Jordan Brand.