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Ovinton J'Anthony Mayo, aka OJ Mayo (born November 5, 1987 in Huntington, West Virginia, United States) is a student at North College Hill High School in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is by considered several media outlets to be among the best high school basketball players in the United States.[1] [2] He is scheduled to graduate in May 2007. November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ...
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Huntington is a city located in the U.S. State of West Virginia along the Ohio River. ...
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Early years
The first public mention of Mayo occurred in the Ashland, Kentucky Daily Independent newspaper in an article called 'Phenom' in the paper's January 21, 2001 edition, when Mayo was just a sixth grader. In that article he was listed as being a "6-foot-1½ point guard with size 14 shoe". The article also mentioned that he had repeated a grade and therefore was ineligible to play varsity high school basketball as of yet. City motto: A proud past. ...
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Mayo commuted from Huntington to Rose Hill Christian, a private school in Ashland, since student athletes can play high school varsity sports as seventh graders in Kentucky. In the seventh grade, he put up numbers that dwarfed the production of players five years his senior. In his first game for his varsity team he scored 27 points, had seven rebounds and three steals. He was a seventh grader playing against juniors and seniors in high school.
During his seventh grade year in January of 2002, Mayo was mentioned in Sports Illustrated Magazine and on CBS Sportsline.com. There were also full articles in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Huntington, West Virginia Herald-Dispatch and USA Today. The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Matthews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ...
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After the completion of the basketball season during his eighth grade year, he moved to Cincinnati with his grandfather in order to attend North College Hill high school near Cincinnati, and test his mettle in a more competitive environment.
The Phenom In 2006, the 6' 5" 205 lbs. 18-year old junior point guard was selected as Mr. Basketball of Ohio for the second consecutive season, in addition to being named Associated Press Division III Player of the Year for the second consecutive season. He averaged nearly 30 points, six rebounds, and seven assists per game. He also led his team to consecutive AP poll titles and garnered much attention from the media, appearing in the pages of Sports Illustrated among other publications. Much like another Ohio high school star, LeBron James, Mayo has drawn large enough crowds to force his team into seeking larger venues to support the growing crowds, and often attracts National Basketball Association stars such as James and Carmelo Anthony to watch his games. The first issue of Sports Illustrated, August 16, 1954, showing Milwaukee Braves star Eddie Matthews at bat in Milwaukee County Stadium. ...
LeBron Raymone James (IPA: , born December 30, 1984 in Akron, Ohio), commonly nicknamed King James, LBJ, or The Chosen One, is an American All-Star NBA basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. ...
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Carmelo Kyan Anthony (born May 29, 1984, in New York City, New York) is a professional basketball player at the small forward position for the Denver Nuggets of the NBA. His father, whom Carmelo is named after, was Puerto Rican and his mother African American. ...
When his team played a game in Huntington, 3,500 fans packed the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse in order to watch him play. When his team played a game at Cerritos College, 6,500 fans filled a moderately sized arena to watch him play. On Martin Luther King Day in 2006, more than 10,000 fans came to Xavier University's Cintas Center to watch Mayo and North College Hill play Cincinnati Taft. In February, the largest crowd to ever see a high school game in Cincinnati, more than 16,000, watched North College Hill fall to the nation's number one rated team, Oak Hill Academy. Mayo had been considered a lock to make the leap straight from high school to the NBA, but the recent Collective Bargaining Agreement between the NBA and its players has instituted a rule that a player must be at least a year out of high school before he can enter the NBA, thus curtailing those plans. On July 5, 2006, it was reported by ESPN that OJ will attend the University of Southern California. [3] Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse The Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse is a 8,500-seat (6,500 for basketball) county-owned multi-purpose arena in Huntington, West Virginia. ...
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