Nike Global Challenge
| August 11, 2008
Over the weekend, while most of the world else was eating, sleeping and breathing Olympic hoops from Beijing, the Portland suburb of Hillsboro, Ore., played home to some future Olympians at the Nike Global Challenge.
Avery Bradley (photo. Kelly Kline)
Nike took 30 of the high schoolers ballplayers in America and divided them into three teams to be placed in a tournament along with five international squads from Serbia, Canada, Puerto Rico, Senegal and Lithuania. While all of the international teams were solid — especially Serbia, a team of mostly 19-year-old pros who were coming off a Euroleague junior championship and upset a loaded USA-3 team on the NGC’s first day — the championship ultimately came down to USA-1 versus USA-2. Led by tournament co-MVP’s Abdul Gaddy (12 pts, 7 asts) and Avery Bradley (25 pts), teammates at Bellarmine Prep in Tacoma, Wash., USA-2 got the win and took home the gold medals.
John Wall (photo. Kelly Kline)
The Global Challenge is well-covered on HighSchoolHoop.com
, including full game recaps, recruiting updates, and interviews with elite high schoolers John Wall, Jamil Wilson, Jereme Richmond, Aaron Dotson and Jordan Hamilton.
[...] the middle of this past weekend’s Nike Global Challenge – which pitted three teams of America’s best high school talent against five international [...]
My cousin went here his name is Mike Gilchrist. Watch out for him this kid is nice and he is in the 10th grade standing tall at 6′ 7”. Also watch out for me I’m nice and I just came from the Keystone State Shootout in PA,hoping to make it to the big colleges like UNC you know. Attending Haddon Heights High School in NJ playing girls varsity basketball in the 10th grade.
Look out we coming.