Film maker Marcus Mizelle on Why Kinston, NC is a basketball hotbed

Posted Nov 2, 2020
One in every 52.7 basketball players that played basketball at Kinston High School have played in the NBA. The average is one out of every 10,000. Cedric Maxwell, Charles Shackleford, Jerry Stackhouse, Reggie Bullock, and Brandon Ingram are among the NBA players from the small town in North Carolina. "Kept hearing about a kid named Dontrez Styles." (SLAM Online)

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