#23 Archbishop Molloy (New York City, New York) – 8 Players
Situated within Queens, N.Y., the Archbishop Molloy school is most famous for John Curran, the legendary basketball coach. Being the highest victory-holding coach within New York City and state, he headed the school’s team for a phenomenal 45 years.
Archbishop Molloy
Amazingly, the masterful coach’s fame was exceeded by the coming to the school of Kenny Anderson in 1985. Kenny was a superstar prior to Molloy, having previously featured on the cover of the NYC basketball-related sports section, with his fame only increasing.
Kenny was the initial sportsman within New York City progression to with the all-city title for the fourth time, setting the scoring benchmark. Kenny proceeded through an NBA performance spanning fourteen years, achieving a sole All-Star position through the close by New Jersey Nets by 1994.
NBA Players Who Attended Archbishop Molloy (Years in League)
Kenny Anderson (14)
Sundiata Gaines (3)
Kevin Joyce (3)
Tommy Kearns (1)
York Larese (1)
Kenny Smith (10)
Robert Werdann (3)
Brian Winters (9)
#24 Crenshaw High School (Los Angeles, California) – 8 Players
It isn’t often that you find two high school teammates both making it to the NBA. Even rarer than that is having to highschool teammates becoming teammates in the NBA together too! However, this is exactly what occurred in 1982 when Robert Smith and Marques Johnson of Crenshaw both joined the Milwaukee Bucks.
Crenshaw High School
While Johnson was well into his career, already with triple All-Star Games performance, Smith was enlisted as a journeyman on a ten-day contract. Regardless, it was a most memorable experience for the two players considering that the last time they shared a court was almost ten years earlier in Crenshaw.
Smith and Johnson both performed under coach Willie West, who guided the Crenshaw team for more than three decades, from 1971 to 2007. West claimed a whopping sixteen city crowns and twenty-eight league titles, winning 805 games in total, culminating in 8 state championships.
NBA Players Who Attended Crenshaw (Years in League)
Stanley Brundy (1)
Darwin Cook (8)
Tremaine Fowlkes (4)
Marques Johnson (11)
Kevin Ollie (13)
Robert Smith (7)
Stephen Thompson (1)
John Williams (8)
