http://usatodayhss.com/2015/could-2...ton-be-teammates-with-2018-no-1-marvin-bagley
Talk about a killer front court! Wow!
Talk about a killer front court! Wow!
DeAndre Ayton may join Marvin Bagley at Hillcrest
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http://espn.go.com/recruiting/baske...re-ayton-enrolls-hillcrest-hoops-prep-academy
It's official! Ayton and Bagley will play HS ball together this season. Wow, what an amazing Dynamic Duo! An unstoppable front court.
It's official! Ayton and Bagley will play HS ball together this season. Wow, what an amazing Dynamic Duo! An unstoppable front court.
Could this turn into a package deal? Looks like UNC, Zona, and Kentucky are the main schools in the mix for BOTH guys. Can't see UNC/Roy getting any top recruit at this point, but Zona could be a threat. Miller always recruits well.
Ayton is 2017 while Bagley is 2018, so couldn't really be a package deal. Both will be OAD so they won't play college ball together. Would love for UK to get them back to back though.
Maybe.
There seems to be no chance right now that Ayton is going to be anything but a 2017 player. If he was going to try to reclassify to 2016, like a lot of people assumed given his age (he turned 18 in July), there would have been some kind of news about it already. Bagley, OTOH, is already 17, has time to decide, and a whole lot of motivation, to reclassify to 2017 and be eligible for the 2018 NBA draft.
Ayton didn't come to America until he was 14 or 15, so he was probably behind academically. Bagley has been in the US school system his whole life, meaning at some point (given his March birthday), be it back in grade shcool or middle school or whatever, he was scheduled to be in the 2017 HS class. We've seen Andre Drummond, Nerlens Noel, Dakari Johnson, Karl Towns, and others make the jump back to their original graduating class when it became obvious they would benefit from getting to college ASAP. Bagley fits that profile. It all comes down to his academics, and just how much of a rush he's in to get to the pros.
Ayton turned 17 in July not 18 I think. The birth date for him I found was 7-23-1998 from the Sports Illustrated article on him 2 months ago.
http://www.si.com/college-basketball/2015/08/03/deandrey-ayton-recruiting-2017-top-prospect-bahamas
You're right. I'm a year off on both, as Bagley turned 16 March, not 17. But it all ends in the same place. Ayton will be 19 in the year of the 2017 NBA draft, meaning that's the earliest he could possibly enter it. It looks like that's not going to happen, and he'll end up in the 2018 draft. Bagley will turn 19 in the year of the 2018 draft, but is not scheduled right now to be eligible until the 2019 draft. That could change, which is what I was talking about.
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