While many of his friends and teammates were playing at all-star basketball camps in Philadelphia and Akron, Ohio, earlier this month, Jayvaughn Pinkston sat in summer school courses at Bishop Loughlin High School in Brooklyn.

“He’s in Summer School All-American Camp,” joked Kimani Young, the director of the New Heights AAU program and an adviser to Pinkston.

The 6-foot-6, 250-pound Pinkston wanted nothing more than to run up and down the court at the Reebok All-American Camp in Philadelphia in front of hundreds of major-conference Division I head coaches.

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**Also, here’s a good tale by Gary Parrish about Anthony DiLoreto, a 7-footer facing two felony charges for his involvement in a bank robbery who still holds a scholarship offer from St. Louis.

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