Surprisingly White Hotbed Of Basketball Talent: Newport, Maine
10/30/2023
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Earlier (2013) White Mormon Team Ranked #1 Nationally In High School Basketball

From ESPN:

Breaking down the impact of Cooper Flagg’s commitment to Duke

Oct 30, 2023, 08:40 AM ET

The most anticipated commitment in the 2024 class finally came on Monday, with Cooper Flagg—the best prospect in high school basketball and the heavy favorite to be the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA draft—picking Duke over UConn. …

Flagg cemented himself as the best player regardless of class during a dominant summer at the NBPA Top 100 Camp in Orlando, Florida, in late June and at the Nike EYBL Peach Jam in July.

Best white North American basketball players come from the sticks. It doesn’t seem to do white hoopsters much good to go through adolescence in black-dominated basketball cultures.

Cooper Flagg, the top high school prospect, is a 6’8″ white guy from the middle of Maine, a small town outside of Bangor. After a fine HS freshman year, he transferred to a Florida private school that specializes in foreign basketball players like Cameroon’s Joel Embiid.

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