McDonald's High School All-Americans

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Kelley Cain

Kelley Cain

Kelley Cain (born May 16, 1989) is an American basketball center who last played for the Connecticut Sun of the WNBA. Born in Stone Mountain, Georgia, she went to St. Pius X Catholic High School (Georgia) and played collegiately for the Tennessee. Currently she plays for Güre Belediye Woman Basketball Club in İzmir, Turkey.

Cain was a member of the USA Women's U18 team which won the gold medal at the FIBA Americas Championship in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The event was held in July 2006, when the USA team defeated Canada to win the championship. Cain helped the team the gold medal, scoring 6.5 points per game. Her field goal percentage of 57.9% was second among all contestants, and her 1.75 blocks per game was tied for first (with Jayne Appel)

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She was selected in the first round of the 2012 WNBA Draft (7th overall) by the New York Liberty, while she was playing in Turkey for Güre Belediye Woman Basketball Club in İzmir.

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Nick Calathes

Nikos Calathes

Nicholas William Calathes (Greek: Νικόλαος "Νίκος" Γουλιέλμος Καλάθης; born February 7, 1989) is a Greek-American professional basketball player who currently plays for Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League and the EuroLeague. He also plays for the senior men's Greek national team internationally. He played college basketball for the University of Florida's Gators. Calathes has also played in the NBA and the VTB United League.

Calathes was born in Casselberry, Florida. He attended Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Florida, and graduated as the leading high school basketball scorer in Seminole County history. He teamed with future Florida Gator Chandler Parsons, future VCU Ram Joey Rodriguez, to help Lake Howell to a 31–3 record, and a state championship in 2007. At Lake Howell, Calathes twice won the Florida Mr. Basketball award, placing him on a long list of NBA players who have won that award, including Vince Carter, Amar'e Stoudemire, Brandon Knight, and Austin Rivers.

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Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Kentavious Caldwell-Pope

Kentavious Tannell Caldwell-Pope (born February 18, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was one of the top high school basketball players in the class of 2011. He was selected with the eighth overall pick in the 2013 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons. Caldwell-Pope played college basketball for the University of Georgia for two years before declaring for the 2013 NBA draft on April 15, 2013.

Caldwell-Pope was a highly heralded player in high school. As a senior, he averaged 31 points and 8.2 rebounds per game at Greenville High School in Greenville, Georgia. He led the Patriots to the State Class A Final Four in 2011 and to consecutive Sweet 16 berths in 2009–10.

He was named to several prominent high school All-America teams as a senior, including being selected to play in the 2011 McDonald's All-American Game and the Jordan Brand Classic.

As a senior, he was rated the nation's No. 3 shooting guard prospect, the No. 12 prospect overall, by recruiting analysts for Rivals.com.

Caldwell-Pope chose Georgia to play for Mark Fox and Cody Anderson over scholarship offers from Alabama, Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Tennessee among others.

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As a freshman, Caldwell-Pope was named to the Coaches' Freshman All-SEC Team, which also included NBA lottery picks Bradley Beal, Anthony Davis, and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist. His highest output as a freshman was 25 points vs. Ole Miss, which was the most by a UGA freshman in almost 13 years.

As a sophomore, Caldwell-Pope was named SEC Player of the Year after averaging 18.5 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. He ended his career at Georgia scoring a career-high 32 points and 13 rebounds in a loss against LSU at the SEC tournament in Nashville.

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Rick Calloway

Richard Marlon Calloway (born December 12, 1966) is an American professional basketball player. He played one season in the NBA for the Sacramento Kings during the 1990-91 season. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended Indiana University and transferred to the University of Kansas in 1988. Calloway was a 6'6" 180 lb forward.

Calloway was selected in the 1990 CBA Draft by the Omaha Racers, and played for the Columbus Horizon and Rochester Renegade in that league. He also played professionally in Argentina and Poland.

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Jason Capel

Jason Maurice Capel (born January 15, 1980) was the 15th head coach of the Appalachian State Mountaineers men's basketball team. He is a former basketball player for the North Carolina Tar Heels, and is the brother of Jeff Capel, former Duke University basketball player and current Duke University assistant coach. Capel provided color commentary for ACC basketball games on Raycom Sports during the 2007–2008 college basketball season. He is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. He is married to his college sweetheart Ashley Heath, also a graduate of UNC.

At a height of 6 feet and 8 inches and a weight of 220 pounds, Capel played the small forward position. Born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Capel is only one of nine players to ever start for UNC's basketball team in all four years of his eligibility. He led the Tar Heels in scoring in his senior year with 15.6 points per game. He also played in the NCAA Final Four in 2000.

Capel went undrafted in the National Basketball Association's NBA Draft in 2002. Though he briefly made the Charlotte Bobcats' roster, he never played in an NBA game. He then turned down more lucrative offers in Europe to play basketball in the NBA D-League for the Fayetteville Patriots, a team coached by his father Jeff Capel II. After two years in the D-League (2002–04) he played professionally in Japan for the Aisin Seahorses (2004–05).

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Antoine Carr

Antoine Carr

Antoine Labotte Carr (born July 23, 1961) is an American retired basketball player. A 16-year NBA journeyman, he was known for the goggles he wore onto the court.

Antoine Carr was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. A tall, garrulous youngster, Carr was a star basketball player at Wichita Heights High School (class of 1979)—a teammate on the 1977 Heights team was future NBA player Darnell Valentine. He accepted a scholarship to play locally at Wichita State University. A four-year player, Carr was a major contributor on a team that also included future NBA players Xavier McDaniel and Cliff Levingston, averaging 17 points per game while shooting over 55% during his college career. In his final college game he scored a school record 47 points against Southern Illinois on March 5, 1983.

He played for the US national team in the 1982 FIBA World Championship, winning the silver medal.

Coming off a senior season where he'd averaged 22.5 points and 7.6 rebounds a game in a strong college program, Carr was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the first round (eighth pick overall) of the 1983 NBA draft. Despite being a top-ten pick, Carr played the 1983–84 season in Italy with Simac Milano. Returning to the NBA in the 1984–85 season, he played six full seasons with the Atlanta Hawks before moving to the Sacramento Kings in the middle of the 1989–90 campaign. While in Sacramento, Carr averaged 20 points per game and was the team's star. He scored 1,551 points that season, by far his best scoring season (aside from that season, he never scored more than 1,000 points). Carr also played for the San Antonio Spurs, where he led the team in field goal percentage. He also played a notable first round series in 1994 against the Utah Jazz. Carr was filling in for an injured David Robinson, who had a fractured hand. Carr put on what could be considered the best games of his career, but the Spurs still lost the series 1–3. Carr was signed as a free agent by the Utah Jazz on October 29, 1994, where he was a periodic starter at the center position beside power forward Karl Malone. When not starting, he settled in as his role as the energetic and jovial sixth man. Coach Jerry Sloan utilized Carr extensively during the two years that the Jazz reached the NBA finals – relying on his experience and ability to control the ball. Carr led the Jazz to victory in Game 5 of the 1998 Finals against the Chicago Bulls with several clutch jumpshots. Carr finished his career with the Houston Rockets and Vancouver Grizzlies, playing 18 games with Houston and 21 with Vancouver in a reserve role.

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Essence Carson

Essence Carson

Essence Carson (born July 28, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA).

Carson was born in Paterson, New Jersey and is one of three children. Carson started playing organized sports at age 11 and attended Rosa L. Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts, while competing athletically at Eastside High School in Paterson, where she was an all-state volleyball player and state champion in the 400 meters.

Carson was a 2004 graduate of Rosa L. Parks School of Fine & Performing Arts and Eastside High School. She participated in the 2004 WBCA High School All-America Game, where she was a starter and scored seven points. Carson was also a McDonald's All-American where she was also a starter and scored 5 points. Upon graduation, Carson accepted a basketball scholarship at Rutgers University.

Carson attended and played college basketball at Rutgers University for four seasons. During her college career, Carson played shooting guard and small forward for coach Vivian Stringer as the team entered the NCAA Tournament in each of her first three seasons. Carson was a key-member on the team when they won the Big East title in her first two seasons. In her freshman season, Carson was named a Big East Academic All-Star and won Big East Defensive Player of the Year in her sophomore season. Rutgers had finished second place during Carson's junior season and advanced all the way to the NCAA Championship Game after a 54–53 win over top-seeded Duke. They would end up losing to Tennessee in the final championship game. In her junior season, Carson had also won Big East Defensive Player of the Year for the second time and was named to the All-Big East First Team, as well as the Big East All-Tournament Team. Following her senior season, Carson entered the 2008 WNBA draft.

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Answer 8

Michael Carter-Williams

Michael Carter-Williams

Michael Carter-Williams (born October 10, 1991) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted 11th overall in the 2013 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, after playing college basketball for the Syracuse Orange. He was named NBA Rookie of the Year in 2014, and was traded to the Milwaukee Bucks in February 2015.

Carter-Williams attended Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Hamilton, Massachusetts as a freshman. He was 5'9" as a freshman, and led his team and conference in scoring with 20 points per game and a league championship.

In 2008, Carter-Williams transferred to the boarding school St. Andrew's in Barrington, Rhode Island where he lived in a dormitory during his final three years of high school. In his three years as a starter, he averaged 25.4 points per game. As a senior, he averaged 23.2 points, 8.3 rebounds and 5.5 assists per game.

After his sophomore season in high school, Carter-Williams committed to attend Syracuse where he played on their basketball team. He visited colleges in August after his sophomore year in 2009 and received scholarship offers other schools such as Providence, Virginia Tech, Florida State, Virginia, Notre Dame, and Clemson.

Later in his high school career, he played on the same AAU team as future 76ers' teammate, Nerlens Noel.

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Carter-Williams had a subdued freshman season at Syracuse in 2011–12 as he played behind Scoop Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters. The season began about how Carter-Williams envisioned with him coming off the bench but solidly in Jim Boeheim's rotation. That niche role gradually eroded, however, as Jardine and Triche solidified their starting roles and Waiters emerged as the best sixth man in the nation. It was a difficult first season for him in which he did not play in 11 games and received sporadic minutes in others. He finished the season averaging 2.7 points, 2.1 rebounds and 10.3 minutes in 26 total games (no starts).

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Answer 9

Vince Carter

Vince Carter

Vincent Lamar "Vince" Carter (born January 26, 1977) is an American professional basketball player for the Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall and plays both shooting guard and small forward.

A high school McDonald's All-American, Carter played three years at the University of North Carolina. While there, he twice reached the Final Four of the NCAA Tournament before being selected as the fifth overall pick in the 1998 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors, who traded him to the Toronto Raptors. He won the 1999 NBA Rookie of the Year Award and won the Slam Dunk Contest at the 2000 NBA All-Star Weekend. That summer, he represented the United States in the Summer Olympics, winning a gold medal.

He quickly emerged as a league star, entertaining crowds with his leaping ability and slam dunks, earning him nicknames such as "Vinsanity", "Air Canada", and "Half-Man, Half-Amazing". He led the Raptors to their first three playoff appearances. In 2004, he was traded to the New Jersey Nets, and he helped lead them to three playoff berths. In July 2009, Carter was traded to the Orlando Magic, and helped them advance to the Eastern Conference Finals before being traded to the Phoenix Suns in December 2010. He joined the Mavericks in 2011 and the Grizzlies in 2014.

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Answer 10

Wendell Carter

Wendell Carter Jr.

Wendell Carter Jr. (born April 16, 1999) is an American basketball player.

Carter attended Pace Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. As a sophomore, he averaged 21.3 points per game, 12.3 rebounds per game, and 4.1 blocks while leading the Knights to a (27-3) record and a Georgia 6AA regional title. Carter would continue to develop his game during the summer of 2015 where he led his AAU Georgia Stars to a Nike Peach Jam championship title. Intering his junior season in 2015-16, Carter averaged 21.6 points per game and 13.6 rebounds per game leading Pace Academy to the 2016 Georgia class AA state Championship. In the spring and summer of 2016, Carter competed for the AAU team, Cp3 All stars sponsored by Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul. He averaged 16.8 points per game and 10.2 rebounds per game. As a senior, he averaged 22 points, 15 rebounds, and 5 blocks while leading the Knights to a Georgia class 3A state championship on March 9, 2017. he was the Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year.

Carter is rated as a five-star recruit and is ranked among the top recruits in his class. In November 2016, he committed to Duke University to play college basketball.

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