Anthony Davis is ranked as the No. 2 power forward in the Class of 2011, yet hardly anyone knew who he was before this spring.

After growing seven inches in a year, Davis is now 6 feet, 9 inches and 187 pounds.

“He went through a major, major growth spurt,” said Anthony Davis Sr. “He’s eating us out of house and home, for sure. He just won’t gain the weight.”

Davis burst onto the national scene this past spring and was named Most Promising Prospect at the recent NBA Top 100 Camp in Charlottesville, Va. (more…)

John Fields, a 6-foot-9, 225-pound big man who is transferring from North Carolina Wilmington, is considering Miami, Rutgers, Xavier and Tennessee.

He will visit Miami Tuesday-Thursday before heading to Tennessee Thursday.

Fields also visited Rutgers last Thursday-Saturday  and was at Xavier before that.

Fields, a Fayetteville, N.C. native, spent two seasons at East Carolina before transferring to UNCW, where he averaged 10.2 points and a team-best 8.7 boards.

He sat out the the last four games with a knee injury.

He did not pick up his cell phone Monday morning.

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Here are the rosters for the Kevin Durant and Paul Pierce Nike Skills Academies in Chicago. These campers, plus those from Deron Williams and Amar’e Stoudemire, all go to the LeBron James camp July 5-7 in Akron.

KEVIN DURANT ROSTER

No. Name Hgt. Wgt. Wingspan Class High School/Hometown
1 Mychael Henry 6-6 !” 211 82 !” 2011 Orr Academy/Chicago, IL
2 Levi Randolph 6-4 !” 178 80 !” 2011 Bob Jones/Madison, AL
3 Jakarr Sampson 6-7 !” 192 82 !” 2011 St. Vincent-St. Mary’s/Akron, OH
4 Nick Faust 6-5 172 81 !” 2011 City College/Baltimore, MD
5 Mike Shaw 6-8 213 81” 2011 De La Salle Institute/Chicago, IL
6 Victor Nickerson 6-7 179 80” 2011 Norcross/Atlanta, GA
10 Tyler Harris 6-7 !” 190 81” 2011 Half Hallows/Dix Hills, NY
11 Anthony Davis 6-9 187 86” 2011 South Houston/South Houston, TX
12 Perry Ellis 6-8 212 82” 2012 Wichita Heights/Wichita, KS
13 Mike Gbinije 6-6 !” 191 78” 2011 Benedictine/Richmond, VA
14 Rodney Hood 6-8 188 79 !” 2011 Meridian/Meridian, MS (more…)

While LeBron James and Amar’e Stoudemire get set to meet with free agent suitors like the Bulls, Knicks, Nets, Heat and Clippers beginning Thursday at midnight, Nike is hosting skills academies featuring both superstars.

James is reportedly going to meet Thursday with the Nets even as reports have him and free agent forward Chris Bosh leaning toward signing with the Bulls.

The New York Times quoted an unidentified league executive as saying ”It’s a done deal” that James would sign with the Bulls, but that his meetings in Ohio would continue out of good faith toward the other teams.

The Knicks reportedly hope to meet with Stoudemire on July 1 in Phoenix after a potential meeting with Hawks guard Joe Johnson, Chris Broussard of ESPN reports. (more…)

On the same day that Rutgers parted ways with center Brian Okam, Mike Rice and his staff hosted several top players from Brooklyn and Queens.

Okam, a 7-foot, 245-pound center from Lake Highland Prep School in Orlando, Fla., received his release from the school and won’t be back at Rutgers. Okam played in 16 games, averaging 1.1 point and 1.1 rebound a game.

That leaves 6-7 Jonathan Mitchell and 6-8 Austin Johnson as Rutgers’ remaining big men.

Meantime, Maurice Harkless of Forest Hills, Kamari Murphy and Shaq Stokes of Brooklyn Lincoln and former Brooklyn Jefferson wing Joel ‘Air Jamaica’ Wright were all on campus and played pickup with the team. Tyler Harris was at Rutgers on Thursday. (more…)

Aaron Cosby, a 6-foot-2, 185–pound combo guard from Northfield Mount Hermon (Mass.), committed to Seton Hall during a weekend visit.

Cosby, a Louisville native now prepping at NMH, chose the Pirates over Boston College, Indiana, Providence, Northwestern, Marshall, Western Kentucky and St. Louis.

“Yes, it was a comfortability with the coaches,” Cosby said by phone.  “I built a relationship with the coaches . They recruited me the hardest these last three months. Coach [Kevin] Willard and coach [Dan] McHale have been seeing me since I was a freshman in Louisville.” (more…)

Quincy Miller put up a double-double of 15 points and 17 rebounds as the USA U18 National Team opened play at the 2010 FIBA Americas U18 Championship by thrashing the U.S. Virgin Islands 131-63 on Saturday night in San Antonio, Texas.

Miller’s rebounds set a new record for the USA U18 National Team for single-game rebounds at this event, surpassing the previous record of 15 set by Shareef Abdur-Rahim versus Panama in 1994.

Austin Rivers (Winter Park H.S. / Winter Park, Fla.) was the high scorer with 18 points after firing off 4-of-6 (more…)

Givon Crump, a 6-foot-7 wing from Washington, D.C., has  decided to transfer to Fresno State from Baylor.

Crump, who also considered Rutgers and Seton Hall, averaged 0.4 points and 0.3 rebounds in 16 games as a reserve forward at Baylor last season. He will have three years of eligibility remaining.

“I feel comfortable with the staff at Fresno State,” Crump said by text. “I trust that Coach Q and Coach [Steve] Cleveland have sincere interest in my success as a basketball player and a young man.”

JAMAICA WRIGHT ON THE MOVE (UPDATED)

Joel ‘Air Jamaica’ Wright, a 6-6 forward from Brooklyn Thomas Jefferson, will visit Rutgers Sunday, Robert Morris on Monday and Rice Thursday. (more…)

So the Nets will reportedly get the first crack at LeBron James on July 1.

But with the news that president Rod Thorn will step down after July 8, will the uncertainty surrounding the franchise discourage James from coming to Newark and Brooklyn?

Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and minority owner Jay-Z will be the first to meet with James in Ohio sometime after midnight Thursday, according to Chris Broussard of ESPN The Magazine.

There will be no Lebron Across America Tour, as had been reported, and King James won’t arrive in New York Thursday to be wined and dined by Garden chairman Jim Dolan at a Manhattan restaurant. (more…)

Andy Rautins grew up in Jamesville, N.Y. as a fan of the Patrick Ewing/John Starks Knicks.

Now the former Syracuse standout has joined that same franchise after being selected 38th in Thursday’s NBA Draft. The Knicks, who did not own a first-round selection, took Stanford forward Landry Fields with the No. 39 pick.

“The feeling of being drafted by the New York Knicks was unreal,” the 6-foot-4 Rautins said Friday on a conference call. “It’s something I couldn’t describe. It’s a team that’s been close to my heart since I was young, especially being an in-state team. One of the most storied franchises in the entire NBA, so it’s a great honor for me and I can’t wait to put on the uniform.”

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**The Nets traded guard Chris Douglas-Roberts to the Milwaukee Bucks for a second-round pick in 2012.

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