Punks: Grindin' My Whole Life

A top-5 recruit headed to Duke in 2018, CAMERON REDDISH joins some elite company as the latest blue chip prospect to declare he’s taking his talents to the aptly named Cameron Indoor Stadium.

THERE ARE certain milestones and rites of passage that most top American high school prospects are expected to go through. Usually among them: being part of USA Basketball’s national junior teams. And so as a top-5 recruit in the Class of 2018 headed to Duke University, you’d assume Cameron Reddish would be an obvious candidate. Except that heading into last summer, the 6-7 wing out of Norristown, PA, had yet to play in a game with “USA” across his chest, despite having attended tryouts the previous two years.

In 2015, he was one of the last to be cut from the Men’s U16 National Team that would later compete at the FIBA Americas Championship in Argentina. With a chip on his shoulder, he returned to Colorado Springs in 2016 and tried out for the USA Basketball Men’s U17 World Championship Team that was headed to Spain later that month.