2019 EYBL sessions 1 & 2 highlights
There’s no real offseason for the high school hoops elite. Summer ball began in earnest over the past month with the first two sessions of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League. Stars from the most recent Culligan City of Palms Classic were well-represented, and none has shone more brilliantly than reigning City of Palms MVP […]
2019 NBA draft combine filled with City of Palms Alumni
Four NBA teams are still in the running for the 2019 title, but the rest of the league is thinking about 2020. And this week, they’ll be taking a hard look at players who Culligan City of Palms Classic fans are already familiar with. City of Palms alums make up one out of every five […]
Hoops History: Kwame Brown is the first of many No. 1 overall picks
Michael Jordan should have paid more attention to the Culligan City of Palms Classic. If he had, he may have avoided the most ignominious mistake of his non-playing career. For a brief time in 2000 and 2001, Jordan was president of basketball operations and general manager of the Washington Wizards, tasked with making player personnel […]
2018 teams: How they fared
The 16-team Culligan City of Palms Classic main bracket, fiour-team Small Town Signature Series and four other showcase games produced a whopping 11 schools who played for a state championship (eight of whom wound up hoisting the first-place trophies) and three more in the season-ending GEICO Nationals: – GEICO NATIONALS IMG Academy (29-1): Wire-to-wire, 66-55 […]
Hoops History: 1989 City of Palms Classic Championship game goes into triple overtime
The NCAA Tournament final went to overtime this year, giving fans five extra minutes of college basketball before Virginia finished off Texas Tech. But as overtime finals of championship games go, the game hardly came close to the triple overtime thriller at the 1989 Culligan City of Palms Classic. Fans gathered at Fort Myers High […]
McEachern's Sharife Cooper wins the USA Today All-USA Boys Basketball Player of the Year
The USA Today All-USA Boys Basketball Player of the Year won’t be attending college next year. Instead, he’ll be back in high school, because the award winner is junior Sharife Cooper of City of Palms champ McEachern (Powder Springs, Georgia). The quick 6-foot point guard put up eye-popping numbers, averaging 28.6 points, 8.7 assists, six […]
Cole Anthony wins McDonalds All-American MVP
It happened again. For the third straight year and the 13th time overall, a Culligan City of Palms Classic alum has won the McDonald’s All American Boys Game MVP. This year, it was Cole Anthony of Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia) coming away with the honors after his all-around performance. The son of […]
IMG wins 2019 GEICO Nationals
Villanova may not have been able to defend its NCAA title this year, but Wildcats fans have plenty of reason to be excited about next year. Wildcats commit Jeremiah Robinson-Earl was named tournament MVP after leading IMG Academy (Bradenton) to the GEICO Nationals championship on April 6. The 6-foot-9 power forward helped IMG do what […]
2019 GEICO Nationals appears very similar to 2018 City of Palms field
The field for this year’s GEICO High School Nationals looks a lot like a Culligan City of Palms Classic draw. Seven of the eight schools headed to the de facto national championship event have played in the City of Palms at some point, and four of them were at the Suncoast Credit Union Arena just […]
City of Palms alumni take over Naismith team selections.
Naismith COP Players: First team Cole Anthony, Oak Hill Academy | Mouth of Wilson, Va James Wiseman, Memphis East | Memphis, Tn Vernon Carey Jr., University School | Fort Lauderdale, Fl Second Team Sharife Cooper, McEachern | Powder Springs, Ga Josh Green, IMG Academy | Bradenton , Fl Third Team Scottie Lewis, Ranney | Tinton Falls, […]