Very few have been granted interviews with the teenager, and little reliable information related to his plans beyond high school has been revealed. That discrepancy is also an indicator of just how secretive those around James have been keeping things.ĭespite playing for one of the country’s top high school teams, there are no reliable season stats for James except for the games that Sierra Canyon has played in national showcases. That’s a pretty big difference for a player who doesn’t yet look the part of an elite point guard. Branham said he thinks James is closer to 6-4. One knock that Cassidy and Peek mentioned was James’ height, which is listed by and on Sierra Canyon’s roster as 6-2. The next step - but one some fear might never be fully realized - is getting past that passivity and turning in more complete games.
That’s because there’s seemingly more room for upside with a player who already possesses the intangibles that James does.
None of this is to say James can’t reach that point.īranham talked about James in more glowing terms - from an NBA perspective - than you’d normally hear about a No. “He needs to put it all together for a complete game if he first wants to see (major) minutes at a Power Five program and then potentially turn that into an NBA career,” she told the Herald-Leader. Peek called him an “incredible on-ball defender” with solid shooting mechanics and said James has been an “amazing sidekick of sorts” over the years to higher-profile Sierra Canyon recruits like former UK guard Brandon Boston, 2021 lottery pick Ziaire Williams, and consensus top-five 2022 recruit Amari Bailey.īut being a “fantastic role player” - as Peek called him - on the high school level doesn’t exactly translate to a can’t-miss NBA prospect.
Yahoo Sports’ Krysten Peek, who has closely followed James over the course of his high school career, also mentioned that pattern of sometimes-low production.
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