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Sunday / October 13.
  • Five-star guard Jasper Johnson sets announcement date & time

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    Editor’s note: This post was updated on Sept. 3.

    By ADAM ZAGORIA

    Jasper Johnson, the five-star shooting guard from Overtime Elite, will announce his college choice on Thursday at 2:15 ET at Woodford County High School in Lexington.

    The 6-foot-5 Lexington, Ky. native who runs for Team Thad is down to North Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisville, his father Dennis said.

    One source said his NIL market value was in the neighborhood of $1.3-$1.5 million.

    Johnson helped the U.S. to a gold medal last month at the FIBA World Cup. He averaged 10.0 points and 2.7 assists in 15.9 minutes per game. He shot a team best 42.3% from three-point range as well (11-26 3FG).

    “It was a good experience,” he told ZAGSBLOG. “Being able to go out to play and represent my country was great. [The style] is a lot more phyiscal. [You have] to be a lot more fundamental over there.”

    He recently broke down several schools for ZAGSBLOG:

    Alabama: “It was good, coach [Nate] Oats and coach Preston [Murphy] have been contacting me a lot. Going down there and seeing campus, hearing their message was good. [They want] me to be a one-and-done player, have a Day 1 impact and win games.”

    North Carolina: “Coach Hubert [Davis] have been contacting me a lot and I think they’ll come to my games when they can. Seeing the campus was great, it’s a great campus and great program, so I like the school.”

    Kentucky: “Me being from there, Kentucky is always a school I’ve watched. Coach [Mark]Pope reaching out to me and recruiting me has been great. I know it’s Year 1, but I think they’ll do pretty good.”

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    Adam Zagoria is a Basketball Insider who covers basketball at all levels. A contributor to The New York Times and SportsNet New York (SNY), he is also the author of two books and is an award-winning journalist and filmmaker. His articles have appeared in ESPN The Magazine, SLAM, Sheridan Hoops, Basketball Times and in newspapers nationwide. He also won an Emmy award for his work on the SNY mini-documentary on Syracuse guard Tyus Battle. A veteran Ultimate Frisbee player, he has competed in numerous National and World Championships and, perhaps more importantly, his teams won the Westchester Summer League (WSL) championships in 2011 and 2013. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and children.

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