Rant over. Every time a high schooler who barely got his high school diploma gets a scholarship to a great school it is insulting to a student who has to scratch just to get enough money for tuition every semester. Kind of what you would expect from a skinny, 6’9 kid with some famous genes. Returning to school, Lattin earned his B.S. His Grandson, Khadeem is currently a Senior at the University of Oklahoma. You will receive mail with link to set new password. This topic contains 4 replies, has 3 voices, and was last updated by Here is a nice story from J.Givony and DE : from a bball point (a us prospect coming at an early age in europe) and from their lineage point (history of his grand father)It is an unwritten rule that we do not post DX stuff. The Sooners’ strength is their perimeter shooting, but their secret weapon is 6’9” forward Khadeem Lattin, a paint presence who has attempted just two threes in his two college seasons.


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glory road great movie.. Lattin and his support group were reportedly not happy with the pace of his development in Texas and the grassroots world of summer basketball and opted to spend his final two and a half years of high school at Canarias Basketball Academy.Located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands off the coast of Morocco, but officially a part of the territory of Spain, the CBA is a basketball academy run by an American coach named Rob Orellana.

© 2019 Sports Phenoms, Inc., All Rights Reserved | I have homework to do. His quick feet and excellent length allow him to step out occasionally to the perimeter, even though he still has a long ways to go in terms of gaining experience and improving his instincts and overall feel for the game.A year younger than most of the prospects here—not turning 17 until this April—Lattin is clearly still in a very early stage of his development both physically and skill-wise. The Miners consisted of an all-black starting lineup, and the Wildcats’ starters were all white. All of my small scholarships come from academics. His mother, Elsie Lattin, was widowed when Lattin’s father died in 1949. He has some nice tools to work with, and is surely a prospect worth keeping track of in the future, especially if he grows another inch or two. Those Miners were the … Home; Draft. NBADraft.net Mock Drafts; Consensus Mock Drafts He scored 17 points total in his four games here, playing only 15 minutes on average, still seemingly adjusting to the very different style of play of European basketball and even looking a bit passive at times.Defensively is where Lattin is able to make more of an impact at the moment.

Still think it is cool that he went to Europe for HS, definitely first time I heard a major American HS prospect do so. Lost your password? Not very aggressive in this setting with the ball in his hands, his post moves, jump shot, and overall ball skills appear to be unpolished. In 1967, Lattin left Texas Western College after he was drafted as the number ten pick by the NBA’s San Francisco Warriors.

Under the leadership of Coach Don Haskins, the Miners won the 1966 Division 1 NCAA National Championship with five black starting players. Mock Drafts. NBA Draft 2020. [...] he has a chance to match his grandpa’s proudest accomplishment.

He went on to play with the Phoenix Suns, the Pittsburgh Condors, and the Memphis Tams, ending his professional career with the Harlem Globe Trotters from 1973 to 1976. Will be interesting to see if Khadeem develops a "European type game", but I have a feeling it is more about the type of player than the type of skill set. This win came during an era of segregation in …

But colleges are a place for academics. I actually go to my school for (guess what) school, I swim for my university, but I don’t get paid for it and don’t think I should be, not because I’m bad (I am actually a very very good sprinter) but because it’s something I enjoy. The academy recruits prospects around Europe who are interested in playing NCAA basketball, helping them get academically eligible for college and giving them exposure through tournaments such as this., the starting center of the famed Texas Western Miners team (featured in the movie “Glory Road”) that broke down racial barriers as the first all-black starting five in NCAA history.Standing around 6-9 with big hands, very long arms, and a frame that will likely fill out nicely in time, most of the intrigue surrounding Lattin revolves around his strong physical profile. Still, both made the NBA and seem not so much worse for wear.