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Hamilton attended Chicago's Martin Luther King High School, graduating in 1993.He was a high school teammate of Rashard Griffith (the 38th pick in the 1995 NBA draft) and the pair led their school to the 1993 Illinois State Basketball Championship.
The school was founded as Forrestville High School in 1964, which was located 4401 S. Saint Lawrence Avenue (less than a mile west of King's location). Housed in a former elementary school, School officials and community members requested to the Chicago Board of Education a new school building was needed to accommodate the increasing enrollment ...
King won a state championship in 1993, and after dominating the high school ranks and being named Illinois Mr. Basketball, Rashard joined the Wisconsin Badgers college basketball team. Griffith selected Wisconsin over his mother's preference of Purdue University [ 1 ] and a long list of other schools, including Arizona, Duke, Kentucky, Michigan ...
After leading Chicago's Crane High School Cougars to a city title as a freshman, Liberty transferred to Chicago's King College Prep High School for his sophomore through senior seasons from 1984 to 1987. During his time at King, Liberty led his basketball teams to an IHSA State Championship in 1986 and a second-place finish in 1987. During the ...
King College Prep High School, Chicago 826 LSU 1989 Deon Thomas: Simeon Vocational High School, Chicago 959 Illinois 1994 NBA draft: 2nd round, 28th overall by the Dallas Mavericks 1988 Eric Anderson: St. Francis de Sales High School, Chicago 1,490 Indiana 1987 Marcus Liberty: King College Prep High School, Chicago 1,286 Illinois 1990 NBA draft ...
Smith was selected out of Chicago's Martin Luther King High School (where he averaged 25.5 points and 14.5 rebounds per game in his senior year) [2] by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round (29th overall) of the 1999 NBA draft, and was immediately traded to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for the draft rights to Gordan Giriček and a second ...
5 Team players drafted into the NBA. 6 Rankings. ... King High School Chicago, Illinois C: 40 Olaf Blab: 7 ft 0 in (2.13 m) 235 lb (107 kg) RS Fr: Charleston High School:
George Gervin was born on April 27, 1952, in Detroit, Michigan.Gervin attended Martin Luther King Jr. High School.He struggled on and off the court until his senior year, when a growth spurt allowed him to average 31 points and 20 rebounds and lead his school to the state quarterfinals. [4]