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Memphis was the first to offer 2012 Demetris Morant

Dream Vision 17-and-unders were a traveling roadshow this summer. With Shabazz Muhammad and Winston Shepard headlining the tour, college coaches followed this group of elite ballers from tournament to tournament and gym to gym. Along the way, they made stopps at the Adidas Inviational, NY2LA Summer Jam, Adidas Super 64, and the Fab 48. While Muhammad was dropping 30-plus point games in the 17U brackets, 2012 big-man Demetris Morant suited up in the ranks of the 16U, playing well enough to garner his first offer.

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2012 guard Archie Goodwin is known in his hometown of Little Rock, AR. Currently ranked as ESPNU Scouts, Inc’s #26 overall player in 2012 class, the junior-to-be scored a team-high 16 points in the Sylvan Hills Bears’ narrow loss to eventual state champion Greene County Tech in the first round at state and continued his strong play this spring. The 6-foot-4, 180-pound guard took some time to update Memphis Roar on his spring, recruitment, and late summer plans. Check out this 10 minute audio interview with Goodwin below.

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#32 Jarnell Stokes

The NBPA Top 100 Camp at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is primarily for rising seniors. Thus, to be entering your junior year and be at the prestigious event is a pretty big deal. Such is the case for Jarnell Stokes ’12 of Memphis Central (TN) and Perry Ellis ’12 of Wichita Heights (KS).

Stokes, a 6’8, 245-pound forward, lists Missouri, Memphis, Ole Miss, Tennessee, North Carolina, Baylor, Texas, Florida State as the schools recruiting him, mentioning that others are on him as well. Stokes claims offer from all of those programs except for UNC .

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Check out this compilation of highlights from elite guys like Trevor Lacey, J’Mychal Reese, Keith Frazier, and Jarnell Stokes from the Nike EYBL series in the spring of 2010.

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The 2012 prep class coming out of Houston, TX is absolutely loaded. In addition to names like LJ Rose and J’Mychal Reese, Rasheed Sulaimon is cementing himself as one of the top 2012 guards from the city. Sulaimon is a high energy shooting guard the can score in a variety of ways. He can get to the rim in transition or stop and knock down a pull up jumper. Check out the following short clip of Sulaimon from the 2010 Nike EYBL in LA.

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Shabazz Muhammad at the Pangos All-American Camp

Two of the best sophomores in America play their high school basketball in the state of Nevada, but that has not stopped Memphis from pursuing Winston Shepard ’12 and Shabazz Muhammad ’12. Shepard and Muhammad teamed up with Dream Vision California this weekend at the Bob Gibbons Tournament of Champions in North Carolina, and took some time to discuss their recruitment with Memphis Roar.
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