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Hawks BasketBlog
McDonald's Memories
Posted by:
Micah Hart on
March 30, 2007 at
1:33AM AFT
Last night was the McDonald's All-American game, featuring the alleged best high school players in the country (I say alleged because Neil Fingleton was once one - if you don't know who that is, that should tell you part of the story - but he was a 7-6 stiff who was committed to North Carolina but ended up going to Holy Cross where he barely played. Point being, you have to take these rosters with just a slight grain of salt).
 I didn't see much of the game as I was watching the Hawks get drubbed by the Bobcats yet again (I think Charlotte has some sort of mental hold on us - I can't think of any other explanation), but it did remind me to post this: in 2004 both Marvin Williams and Josh Smith played in the McDonalds game as well as several other high school all-star competitions. Here is a link to one of those events, where you see Marvin posterizing his future teammate. Funny stuff.One thing I do enjoy about the game now is that no matter how well someone does, they cannot jump directly to the pros based on their performance. I grew up in Jackson, MS, and watched too many Mississippi State commits use the McDonald's game as a springboard to a pro career (Jonathan Bender, Monta Ellis). I even wrote an article after the 2004 game, after watching Josh Smith display the talents we have come to know and love here in Atlanta. Might there be any future Hawks on last night's rosters? We'll have to check back in a couple years (at least) to know the answer to that one.
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