The following is from SI.com. I can't believe it.
Kentucky wants eighth grader
Posted: Friday May 02, 2008 09:28AM ET
One day. Two games. An eighth-grader competing against players 15-years-old and younger. Those factors made for perhaps the most surprising commitment in the history of Kentucky basketball. UK Coach Billy Gillispie noticed Michael Avery, an eighth-grader from Lake Sherwood, Calif., while attending a youth basketball event sponsored by LeBron James last weekend in Akron, Ohio. Less than a week later, Avery accepted Gillispie's offer of a scholarship to play for the Wildcats ... beginning with the 2012-13 season.
Link to the rest of the story:
Kentucky recruits Junior High player
Friday, May 2, 2008
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