While there, he saw scores of young athletes who had suffered serious injuries -- back, knee, hip -- that one might expect to find in those who worked for decades in hard-labor jobs. "That sort of accumulation of the injuries, or the development of asymmetries, muscle tendon dysfunction, etc. allaninq 3 yr. ago. No NC teams Come on man! And just as there is a new basketball culture, there is a new type of basketball player. As the numbers also indicate below, playing on a shoe-circuit is not the only successful route to the NBA - 22.3% of the American-born players in the NBA 28-and-younger (after inception of shoe circuit) competed on an independent program. The Oakland team went on to win ever major tournament they played in together. What we're seeing is a rash of injuries among young players. (The classification of "highly specialized" was granted to athletes who answered "yes" to the following three questions: Can you identify your primary sport? Darrick Martin, ucla , nba, McDonalds all American AAU doesnt mean jack. Won plenty of state titles. But before that, it's just skill s---. Many Many More High Major D1 ball players.. If were talking about teams that just happened to boast the most successful NBA stars, then I can probably agree, but if were talk flat-out, talented, dominant, winning teams, this list definitely comes up short. Many players decide they want to follow in the same footsteps as their idols, with the ultimate goal of making it to college and the professional level. In 2017-18, the number of NBA games lost to injury or illness surpassed the 5,000 mark for the first time since the league stopped using the injured reserve list prior to the 2005-06 campaign, per certified athletic trainer Jeff Stotts, who has cataloged the careers of more than 1,100 players since that point and is considered the most authoritative public resource for tracking injuries in the NBA. Mike Conley Jr.- was underrated in high school because he played with Oden on high school team. [deleted] 3 yr. ago. Those two teams were the top two in Ohio and HATED each other, so you better believe that every single Ohio AAU person was at the game when it went down. This included Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Kevin Durant, and many others. Hes not about stats, Wizards head coach Scott Brooks said of Porter at a press conference announcing the deal. There are currently only 500 players in the NBA/on two-way contracts. In addition to following a healthy diet, athletes must pay particular attention to gaining muscle and losing fat, which together improve athletic performance. Thanks to everyone who put us on game about the older teams of the 90s and 80s. Over hyped. So you can form your own opinions now. Through dozens of interviews over the past two years with NBA team and league officials, current and former players, AAU coaches, parents, youth players, researchers, medical and athletic training . Fair Syracuse, NBA They have more miles at a younger age and then, when they get to the NBA, they're less mature structurally and physically. These guys were incredible and gained instant respect from anyone who crossed their path. Internationally operates differently than the United States. In some situations, athletes gain an edge with prescribed use of safe supplements. This week we dive into what a pro athletes eat. It consisted of Alan Henderson,(I.U. ", It was noticed in the Atlanta-based offices of Dr. Mike Clark, who founded a program widely used across the NBA that focuses on movement efficiency and injury recovery/prevention: Fusionetics. Kendall Smith - UNLV.Won the 2012 Nike Peach Jam behind the play of big 3 Gordon, Bird and Johnson. Yet the senior Porter remained steadfast in his belief that the best thing for Jr.s development was to stay put in Sikeston. As the Orlando Magic's strength and conditioning coach from 2006-12, Joe Rogowski saw young players struggle with simple movement patterns. Anyways, here are three summer teams that I did not see mentioned in the article nor the comments, but should have been. Couldnt believe they werent on this list. The lack of a national governing body for youth basketball makes a uniform system of rules all but impossible, says David Krichavsky, the NBA's vice president of youth basketball development: "Because the youth landscape has been so fragmented, you have other actors coming in and gobbling up the space that exists. What about the team from Detroit in the early 90s with Chris Webber (Country Day / U of M / NBA), Jalen Rose (Southwestern / U of M / NBA), Chad Varga (Catholic Central / Pitt / NBA), Voshon Leonard (Southwestern / Minnesota / NBA) and other? We were a real team not a collection of flown in talent. A loaded squad added Gordon and McRoberts in 2004, the team lost 4 times in 2004-2005 summer seasons. Team Game Finder FACTS ONLY THIS IS NOT RUMORS! Latest on Miami Heat point guard Tyler Herro including news, stats, videos, highlights and more on ESPN Tim Thomas - Villanova, NBA. Yes just about all American nba players have played aau ball. -Won Peach Jam in 98 Then decided to go to BCI in Az and blow out every team to win another championship to end our careers. "That was it," he says. Come back daily for basketball training videos and drills from some of the nations top basketball programs and advice from professional coaches and trainers. Quick conversion with Andre Stojakovic, son of NBS player Peja Stojakovic, Check out his AAU journey and the struggles of being the son of an NBA player. "It wasn't like I was playing 10 games every week or some s--- like that," he says. "I have many kids who are going to go play in college next year," says Dr. Neeru Jayanthi, the Director of Sports Medicine Research and Education at Emory Healthcare in the Atlanta area and one of the leading researchers on youth sports, "and this whole year has just been about trying to get healthy so they can step on that doorstep as a freshman and actually have a chance to participate. Silver says it's an issue the league is looking into. DARRICK MARTIN-UCLA/TOR This year he carries a highly anticipated to fail , 1st year post-Kobe era LA Lakers , very young team to a suprisingly decent season so far and continues to baffle coaches on how to guard him off the bench, as their back ups dont stand a chance. It's like, why? And still, despite these collective efforts, the NBA continues to receive players who are broken down by the time they get there. Along w/ Willie Kenp who was a Top 5 pg that played at Memphis, along side 7 other D1s. Devin Booker was born on October 30, 1996, in Michigan, to an African-American father, Melvin Brooker, and his Mexican-American and Puerto Rican partner, Veronica Gutirrez. Trying to be dad early. The Circuit will be providing media coverage at the Boys and Girls 5th-8th Grade World Championships, the AAU Super Showcase and the Girls All-American games. Featured a bevy of future Ohio State players. Jalen Rose. First, many of these teams were not that good and lost games along the way, because they were essentially thrown together and didnt practice and had stars that missed a bunch of games. Well I might as well throw what I believe is one the best teams I will say: Eddy Curry may have eat himself out of the NBA but was by the most dominate HS center I have ever seen! This website uses cookies and third party services. Josh McRoberts: 2nd best player in the country, class of 05. That certainly can shorten a career span. SA Rohawks/Hardwork. Marcus White 68 Uconn, Not much NBA but they did that Michigan Mustang team. Just some person putting high profile names of people who played together for 1 summer. MARK GEORGESON-ARIZONA/OVERSEAS 11 Future NBA Players. They also had Kerry Kittles and Scotty Thurman. Most of these AAU teams recruit players from different states to make up a team, BABC only use Greater Boston talent.. HM: 59.2% (42/71) When kids pick up a basketball for the first time, they start to imitate their favorite players. This list is tough but a lot of snubbs. CBC had Ryan Harrow (Kentucky), Noah Cottrill (West Virginia), Mychal Parker (Maryland), etc.I know they lost another game to Cleveland Basketball Club when they were 15-U as well. Josh Selby Kansas, NBA It was happening at four prestigious national tournaments for elite tennis players ages 12-18. Even though they look like giants, they just can't tolerate as much.". I just wanted to play everyday non-stop. 10. A relative of Porter has played a role in almost all of them. That team with Ron and Lamar was great and so were the ATL Celtics with Dwight, Josh, etc. Basketball is its biggest sport, with thousands of leagues, tournaments and showcases. After running the numbers, our team found that playing AAU is one of the most important things a prospect can do to improve their chances of going pro; nearly every American-born player competed for a grassroots club. Looks like we have some reordering to do, and a top 25 to put out in a couple weeks. Pacers/Ft. In June and July, AAU will be hosting a series of Showcase & World Championship events at both the boys and girls levels. We won the AAU title in 99 and 01, and took 2nd in 00. Wayne Dorsey, NFL Silver says that the NBA and NCAA need to join together to help ensure that the guidelines DiFiori has helped outline are uniformly enforced so "young athletes and their parents and coaches don't think that we're putting them at a disadvantage by requiring them to adhere to proper health guidelines." This, in turn, helped fuel the surge of club basketball; if teenagers needed more repetitions to make that leap to the NBA, and more exposure to gain the attention of NBA talent-evaluators, they would need more places to get those repetitions. With unbelievable size & depth! Prince Moore from Seattle, WA Should be on the list as well With stars such as Brandon Roy, Nate Robinson, Aaron Brooks, Marcellous Kemp, Dwayne Wright, Tyrone Shepard and a host of other ballers that team dominanted the Pacific Northwest and other parts of the region, Yal forgot about the Wisconsin teams Playground Warriors ..2012 was way deep.Najeal Young -Iona J.P.Tokoto -North Carolina, Sam Dekker.Wisconsin, Billy garrett jr started with us in jersey when he was 9 his father was a assistant coach at seton hall then he was on the team with kyle anderson -ucla spurs myles mack-Rutgers billy was my 3 guard system then they fired seton hall coach louis orr Billy got the assistant coach job at depaul university. Mike King- George Washington, Europe His father was a brilliant young 'NBA' player when he met Veronica during on one of his tours for the 'Continental Basketball Association.'. My family is a big basketball family. You see kind of the good outcome, which is improved skill, improved athleticism. These players have appeared in at least 1 NBA game. Q&A With Personal Trainer and Fitness Instructor, Tara Emerson, Dry Land Strength Workout For Swimmers And Divers, How To Effectively Motivate Your Athletes, French Contrast Method Program, Routines, and Exercises, Best Exercise to Be Dominate as a Faceoff Athlete in Lacrosse. (And in contrast to the myth that has grown around him, Jordan, Blase notes, didn't treat every practice as if it were Game 7: "There were days when Michael would show up, put ice on his knees, go smoke a cigar and then go play 18 holes of golf. LeBron playing with Oakland? MM: 22.9% (8/35) 2001-2005- Raleighs Finest was one of the more dominant AAU teams in the Country. Power dunker Arthur Long Cincinnati Bearcats) as well as East High Star Terrence jud Mitchell (Seminole Juco Star along with Michael Sheppard. WOW!! A long and athletic defensive team beat Nerlens Noels BABC, Andrew Wiggins CIA Bounce, Theo Pinsons CP3 All-Stars and Julius Randles Texas Titans. . And, even if the League was just a dream, a pro future was well within reach. Dwights team wasnt good enough to advance far enough to play us, we beat Big Babys team, we beat Al Jeffersons team, we crushed the top-ranked Memphis War Eagles by 32 in the Sweet 16 of the 99 National Championships (and that was the year we finished in 2nd). If you want to become a better football player, regardless of your position, youll need to develop a high level of conditioning. Whether you want to add power to your swing, speed on the basepaths or explosiveness in the outfield, youll need to start with lower body and core workouts designed specifically for baseball players. We don't get much serious conversation. Jahlil Okafor- Duke future first overall pick 15.2% (76/500), % of Nike Circuit era players (grad 2011 or later) I was able to that during the offseason and the summer, Porter said. was a perfect place to break through that Rookie & Begginer barrier . We did great things through the 90s. How can you forget the BABC AAU NIKE EYBL National Championship team of 2011. But the brakes, the suspension -- their ankles, hips and core -- while often neglected, remain tasked with enduring the brunt of the body's force. The AAU has a reputation for using teens as assets for a product that values shoe deals and exposure more than development. He can score more and I get that and I appreciate it, but hes willing to sacrifice his own game for the betterment of the team.. Left early to catapault Lincoln Park H.S to win championship at Proviso West. They also found that those who had begun specializing in tennis at a young age were 1.5 times more likely to report an injury than those who hadn't specialized. 2009 Baltimore Elite Dee Brown 6- Illinois NBA "It's very sad, where a kid has an NBA body, he's got NBA talent, he's got even an NBA mentality, but he doesn't have a body that can withstand the rigors of the training and the actual games, whether it's to get to the NBA or just to hold up. Thaddeus Young (68) & Shawne Williams (610) on opposite wings. So if you're wondering how you can be in the thick of things, perhaps as a team sponsor or a coach, this article will guide you on how to start an AAU basketball team. Training refers to the workouts, exercises and drills they perform outside of organized practices to improve their Strength, Speed, Conditioning and Flexibility, as well to rehab and prevent injury. There are currently only 500 players in the NBA/on two-way contracts. I've seen ACL tears in 11-year-olds. That may sound crazy when you consider that Porter grew up in Sikeston, a rural town in southeast Missouri. They won 2 AAU national championships as stated by Kevin Freeman. P3 founder Dr. Marcus Elliott calls basketball "the hardest sport on the human body, where issues -- biomechanical problems -- manifest as injuries, manifest as shortened careers, more so than any other the other sports that we work in." 2006 Southern California All-Stars - Kevin Love - UCLA, NBA. Check out more workouts and drills in our soccer training video gallery. Reece Cheatham: back up point guard that was a freak athlete. I can only imagine he saw an image of himself dominating the NBA while having more fun than anyone along the way, hanging with celebs in his spare time and never let go of it. Now, at 40, Bryant is weighing these same questions with his own children: How much is too much? About 125%. They dont know the fundamentals of the game. Next Bill Russell. Just as impressive was that they were able to keep the team together as long as they did! In his career, Jordan battled the hard-hitting "Bad Boys" Pistons and legendarily played through most any injury. 2004 Spiece Indy Heat - Greg Oden - NBA. Raleigh razorbacks 1999 featured chris wilcox tyron downey an a few player that got caught up in the game of life that really made this team a force to be cant forget a player named weston taylor possibly the best rebounder in nc aau history won stayes in 99 placed in top ten in 98 national best team to ever come out of north carolina, Anybody on here ever heard of a team called Flint Affiliation??? high school basketball is about team success whereas aau is about the individual. But also parts of it are very broken, especially [as it] relates to injuries in the league. Kevin Freeman - Uconn. But consider that a parent could sign their child up for organized youth basketball as young as 7 years old -- and continue on that path all the way through high school. The other went to nd and Virginia moore is a pro (nba). Leon Powe - Cal, NBA. That All Ohio team is still one of the more impressive ones of recent memory. Whaley and White could come close to stopping Curry. Jabari Bird - California. Right. M Squad ARC 1991 chris mills arizona, nba, McDonalds all American Midway through the fourth quarter, the 19-year-old had driven to the hoop, leaped and collapsed. Theres no way that Team Breakdown 2006-2008 shouldnt be considered to 10 ever! How many games might that equate to? Featuring NYC legends Artest and Odom, it was Brand who held down the inside. It's impossible to enforce. 2012 Oakland Soldiers - Aaron Gordon - Arizona, NBA. 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Najeeb Echols- 68 mizzou "It is grave," says one NBA general manager, who says his team's injury databases on players entering the draft, dating back decades, leave "no question" that there are more orthopedic issues among young players in recent years. Bryant estimates he played in maybe five tournaments in all, plus a handful of high school all-star games. Brandon Jennings and Kevin Love dominated while Renardo Sidney complimented Love inside. Greg Oden- One of the largest High School phenoms of all time. O.J. Won every major AAU Event (super showcase, Nationals) Boo williams, Nike memorial day invitational etc. The goal is to grow the game in those countries as well as develop their best prospects in the country into NBA. AAU is not a program for beginners. Chip Schaefer, the Bulls' director of performance health, refers to this trope as "millennial bashing" -- and this from the man who served as the head athletic trainer during the Bulls' 1990-98 heyday, when they were led by the standard-bearer for NBA toughness: Michael Jordan. Renardo Sidney - Mississippi State. "They're 18, 19 years old when they get to the NBA," Padua says, "but they're starting their careers playing 90-plus games a year that much sooner. Team Cant touch this was tough. See a full list of NBA players for 2022-2023, listed by team or in alphabetical order. 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Second, you are showing your generational bias by not listing any team before maybe 1990. Daequan Cook: One and Done college player that went to Ohio State with Oden and Conley. He stuck to his dreams like only a few can say they witnessed. San Diego Cougars 1993-Present never had to make or buy a powerhouses team and never got embarrassed. Charles Obanon and Jaque Vaughn in Cali we beat by 20. With 4 future NBA players the Assault simply overpowered and outclassed opponents to victory. Not everyone went on to play in college or pros but for those summers no one team in AAU could touch us. There already is a Finals MVP, the two are not linked. 2004-2005 Memphis Nike YOMCA Mid-Major: 19% Tennessee Vols -JP Prince (67) at the point w/ Wayne Chism(69), Tyler Smith (67), along w/ University of Memphis Pierre Henderson Niles (68) was a overpowering/dominating front court. 23.2% (117/500), % of foreign route NBA players "I don't think people realize how common back problems are, among NBA athletes," he says. I believe he played for two Raleigh Stars and a Charlotte team. 22.3% (71/305), *multiple players competed on two circuits*. Train for wrestling with workouts that provide the explosive strength and power you need to take down an opponent. Led by number one center Greg Oden, this Indiana team was easily the best team ever assembled in the Midwest. 2002 Oakland Soliders - Lebron James - NBA. STACK has the volleyball drills and workouts you need to take your game to the next level. Randle's leg is broken. Vashon Leonard, Howard isley and 5 other gifted kids. I sex only girls! Bey Mousa Kieta Syracuse, Europe His alma mater, Scott County Central High School, has an enrollment of 181 people. While Lew Alcindor and Charley Scott were definitely tough, Mike Conley, Jr., Eric Gordon and Daquan Cook would have TORN THOSE GUARDS UP!!! Its hard to imagine they lost much. 12.2% (37/305), % of UAA circuit era players (grad 2011 or later) Nearly every NBA player participated in an AAU event at the youth or high school level, and the organization is running strong to this day. Give me Spiece Indy Heat all day long as the chemistry of that team was special in Summer Ball. Players picked in the 2014 first round missed 838 games to injury during their first two seasons, the highest figure Stotts has ever recorded; in 2015, 637, the third-highest tally; in 2016, there were 548 missed games; and in 2017, 751 games, the second-highest. ", "Keep in mind," he adds, "I grew up playing, like, no games. VC on a team from NJ? Kyle Alexander Cole Anthony Udoka Azubuike Luka Garza Scottie Barnes Jalen Green Cade Cunningham Jalen Johnson James Wiseman RJ Hampton Cam Reddish Grayson Allen [21] Deandre Ayton [6] Mohamed Bamba [27] Bol Bol Marvin Bagley III [6] Thomas Bryant RJ Barrett [28] Devin Booker [29] You get a sophomore that can do a 360-degree dunk whereas 20 years ago you never saw that. Won 6 national championships in a row 1988 to 1993. Thats something I prided myself on, getting that extra time in the gym, working on ball-handling, working on my footwork around the rim, things like that. James White - Florida, Cincinnati, NBA. Today, "AAU" is a catch-all term for grassroots leagues and also the largest multisports organization in the country, with more than 700,000 members. At STACK, youll not only get football-specific conditioning workouts, youll also find strength and power workouts from pros. ", DR. DARIN PADUA, chairman of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina, has been studying sports-related injuries and athletic biomechanics for more than 15 years. "You throw in the travel and all the other things that are involved, it is a lot of demand as opposed to allowing your body to mature in your early 20s," Schaefer says. We've approached the NCAA and NBA with various proposals [only] to get lip service. Still, he played well with others and sometimes it was his high school teammate Mike Mercer or high school rival Billy Humphrey who was carrying the scoring load. Daquan Cook - Ohio State, NBA. The process of growing as a team basketball playerlearning how to become part of a whole, how to fit into something bigger than oneselfbecomes completely lost within the AAU fabric., Porter is the ultimate team player, which is why the Wizards had no trouble awarding him with a four-year, $106 million contract this summer. Kobe Bryant believes European basketball players are more skillful than American basketball players, and says it's a growing trend that can be blamed on the greed and coaching at the AAU level. Forgot about The Michigan Mustangs, and The Michigan Hurricanes. The NBA brought DiFiori aboard in 2015 as its director of sports medicine; he'd been studying youth sports and overuse injuries for more than 25 years and was the lead author and led the working group that published Overuse Injuries and Burnout in Youth Sports: A Position Statement from the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine. Malik Story - USCOnly two losses in 2006 and both came without Kevin Love. Mike Miller People in California still talk about the summer Lebron teamed up with Oakland to give the whole country a show. Louisiana Spartans won 6 in a row!!! I have 7 consecutive unresponded to texts to prove it, Also team Cant Touch This had variety of talent, SharpShooterSimpson and hes from the Go, Quincy Miller (NBA), Tireq Muhammad (DePaul Walk on), I also think that Savages team was one of the best ever. As 15 year olds, Lil Wayne and Young Money would hang around their practices at Pace Academy off West Paces Ferry, along with NBA scouts vetting Lou. Was ranked #1 in the country for a long stint that summer. Malcolm Delaney Virginia Tech, Europe For even more softball training, check out softball video library. When you have this many stars, your team doesnt practice or run much in the way of an offense, the players come and go and the reality is that the best AAU teams of all time were probably teams that played together and practiced. Whole list of College guys that beat BABC and beat Riverside Church. % of NBA players that played on a shoe circuit (EYBL . Obviously there are a lot of great teams but there were teams in the late 70s and eighties that these teams did not want to play. Or wait even then in San Diego, California and personally Las Vegas with Adidas was best til Nike All America Camp 158 with room by self. Cute, but thats stupid. James Moses Iowa over seas Demar Johnson and James White were high wire acts that engulfed crowds across America. Or, to put it another way: enough games to encompass more than 12 NBA seasons. 1996 Riverside Church NYC - Ron Artest- St Johns, NBA. That requires me to play a lot of the four (power forward). Hardaway (hamstring) contributed 22 points (7-12 FG, 6-11 3Pt, 2-3 FT) and one rebound over 26 minutes during Thursday's 142-116 victory over the Spurs . Otto Porter Sr. has six brothers and Elnora has five. In a series of studies in 2017 and 2018, a team of researchers working with the University of Wisconsin's David Bell, a professor in its Department of Kinesiology's Athletic Training Program and the director of the Wisconsin Injury in Sport Laboratory, found that while most youth athletes today believe specialization increases their performance and chances of making a college team, the majority of those who reached Division I level didn't classify as highly specialized at the high school level. Eric Gordon-top 5 Indiana HS basketball talent of all time. He played college basketball for the Duke Blue Devils and was drafted by the Detroit Pistons with the 12th pick in the 2017 NBA draft . Fags still weird! High school basketball still provides an attractive avenue for mid-level recruits, and the popularity of digital . Pretty sure I heard Otto Porter never played AAU. To all the old school guys who say those teams from the 70s and 80s would have beat all these teamsget over your nostalgia. The Municipal Gardens 1990 AAU team won the 19 and under National Championship, played at the Suncoast Dome in St. Petersburg, Fla. Luke Douglas Kennard (born June 24, 1996) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). "He very easily could have played overseas," says Jackson, now an . I don't know what can be done.". There, players who played more than four matches -- often at least one per day over a span of four consecutive days -- were more than twice as likely to pull out of the tournament before their fifth match for medical reasons than those who didn't advance that far. 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