NBA players Brandon Jennings, Derrick Williams, Kemba Walker and Greivis Vasquez will take on two of New York’s top high school programs in exhibition games that are free and open to the public.

The “Are You From Here?” Tour will stop in Brooklyn on Wednesday and Friday where the Under Armour athletes will play an exhibition game against Boys & Girls High School on Wednesday and Lincoln High School on Friday. Both games are set for 3:30 p.m.

“These guys are excited,” Lincoln coach Tiny Morton told SNY.tv. “If you’re a high school kid, if you’re a kid trying to be an NBA player, you wouldn’t mind trying to test your skills against them. (more…)

Mike Taylor had it all going for him.

The 6-foot-4 shooting guard led Brooklyn Boys & Girls to its first New York PSAL championship ever in the spring of 2010, and then signed a National Letter of Intent to Rutgers that September, joining a blockbuster recruiting class for head coach Mike Rice.

Then the bottom began to fall out.

“I just stopped working,” he told SNY.tv by phone Tuesday. “I thought I didn’t have to to do school work and stuff like that.” (more…)

The future of Hofstra signee Malik Nichols remains in limbo.

The 6-foot-5 Nichols, who averaged eight points and nine rebounds for the PSAL champion Kangaroos, is on record saying he will attend prep school next season after finishing up this year at Brooklyn Boys & Girls.

But New York Panthers head coach Gary Charles said nothing has been determined as of yet.

“He signed with Hofstra,” Charles said Wednesday by phone. “It’s not like he just gave a verbal. Until the high school season is over and everything has been done to try to get him eligible, I don’t think we can discuss him going to prep school.

“As of now, he’s going to Hofstra.” (more…)

Mike Taylor and his Brooklyn Boys & Girls teammates have already won back-to-back New York PSAL championships.

In the next week, they can add New York State Federation and National championship belts as well.

But they will have to do it without seven suspended players, including one starter and the team’s sixth man.

They were suspended Monday for violating a school rule that requires all students to pass, and regularly attend, their first-period class.

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A week ago, Mike Taylor ended his six-game suspension at Brooklyn Boys & Girls High School.

On Sunday, he and his teammates won back-to-back Public Schools Athletic League titles under head coach Ruth Lovelace with a 62-55 victory over Lincoln at Madison Square Garden.

And this fall, he could be in the mix at the shooting guard spot for Rutgers coach Mike Rice.

“I just learned I’ve got to take more responsibility for my actions,” said  the 6-foot-3, 205-pound Taylor, whose team will play in the New York State Federation semifinals March 26 in Albany, N.Y.

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