Summer ‘08 Players to Watch — Tristan Spurlock
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After championships are won and lost, the NBA, college and high school basketball lays its foundation in the summer months. With the draft, the AAU circuit and summer camps giving rise to new stars replacing the old — plus the world’s most-watched basketball tournament getting underway in Beijing — we give you this summer’s Players to Watch…
Everything has been set in place for Tristan Spurlock to become the next Kevin Durant. Lanky scoring wing with a smooth outside stroke … product of the D.C. Blue Devils AAU program … infiltrating the national rankings at Montrose Christian (Md.) School. Check, check and check. At 6-7, 220, the rising senior Spurlock is visibly more filled-out than KD was/is, and going into this summer already has the interest of a cadre of major programs like Virginia, Georgetown, USC, Wake Forest and, naturally, Texas. Read More »
