Two years ago, Deng Ngor wasn't walking into a Rivals headline — he was walking into a boarding school in Fort Erie, Ontario, chasing the version of basketball he couldn't find back in Alberta. Now he's chasing something bigger: a decision between Duke, Florida, Ohio State, and Washington, four programs that all saw the same thing scouts on the ground have been saying for a year — this is a connective wing whose game translates immediately, even if his name doesn't yet. The gold-medal dunk in...

The Varsity MVP at Halifax Grammar School this year was a young Grade 10 point guard who has lately been making a name for himself on a larger scale. After a great summer with the Mississauga Monarchs on the MADE Hoops AAU circuit, Cadence MacLeod is starring with Nova Scotia’s U17 Nationals team. One of the youngest players in the tournament, he leads his team in floor time, and if Cadence wasn’t nationally known before, he is now. MacLeod descends from Nova Scotian royalty as the son of...

For Canadian high school basketball players, the summer calendar has become increasingly crowded. There are AAU tournaments, NCAA live periods, national championships, showcases and camps, all designed in some way to answer the same question: How good are you compared to everyone else? The Brampton Honey Badgers are taking that question considerably farther from home. For another summer, a collection of Canadian prospects assembled through the Honey Badgers program is travelling to Shanghai,...