One of the nation’s top basketball recruits, Michael Porter Jr., punctuated his undefeated high school team’s championship win with a self alley-oop off the backboard.
Top recruit Michael Porter Jr. alley-ooped to himself in championship win
You’ll be hearing his name a lot next year.
That had some serious Zion Williamson flare to it, and he was wowing all night.
Porter scored 27 points and grabbed 17 rebounds to help finish the season with a perfect 29-0 record. His younger brother, Jontay, scored 10 points and added six rebounds.
University of Washington commits, the Porters were two of seven new transfers to Nathan Hale High School in Seattle this season. That turned the program around from a miserable three-win season a year ago.
Recruits flocked to Nathan Hale to play under the school’s new head coach, three-time NBA all-star Brandon Roy. The former Portland Trail Blazers great left the league early due to injury, but found his way as a coach.
The win brought Roy’s basketball career full circle, as he avenged the three times he failed to win a high school championship as a player in the same arena. He woke up to a text from his mother which read “Get your championship,” according to The Oregonian.
“I walked out of this locker room three times,” Roy told the Oregonian. “I wasn’t crying, but she had to pick me up. I was hurt pretty bad, just because I wanted to win so bad, and I wanted to win here.”
He did.
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