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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 ...
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: 2nd round, 42nd overall by the Denver Nuggets 1986 Nick Anderson: Simeon Vocational High School, Chicago 876 Illinois 1989 NBA draft: 1st round, 11th overall by the Orlando Magic 1985 Ed Horton ...
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 ...
A native of Chicago, Illinois, Winters attended King High School from 1978 to 1982. After completing high school, Winters was named a Parade Magazine All-American, and additionally named to the West squad of the 1982 McDonald's All-American Team. [1] At the conclusion of the game, Winters had scored 19 points and was named the Most Valuable ...
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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 ...