On Tuesday, Reebok rolled out the red carpet for the top-five performers from its 2011 Breakout Challenge, inviting the high school standouts to Reebok headquarters in Boston for two days of star treatment. During the Reebok Basketball Summit, the selected players were given the keys to the company, complete with larger-than-life likenesses plastered around Reebok’s in-house basketball court, where a cast of NBA stars put on a personal training session.
http://www.slamonline.com/online/college-hs/high-school/2011/09/reebok-basketball-summit-john-wall/John Wall, who four years ago rocketed up national rankings thanks to his participation in the Breakout Challenge, helped handpick the five high schoolers: Seth Allen, Jonathan Milligan, Darrick Wood, and Daiquan Walker from the Class of 2012, and Rysheed Jordan, Class of 2013. (Jordan, perhaps the most highly touted of the five, was unable to make it to Boston due to illness.) Wall and fellow Reebok teammates Jason Terry, Jameer Nelson, Ramon Sessions and Isaiah Thomas were in the building to impart their wisdom, and put the young talent through two days of hoop camp.
Darrick Wood, Alexandria, VA, 6-4, 170 pounds, St. John’s
Wood is unassuming as a physical specimen, his spindly body still yet to fill out. But then you watch him dunk a basketball. Wood threw down a pair of tomahawks that rocked the gym during one training session, followed by an impromptu dunk contest… against himself. The DC-area native’s explosiveness is apparent on his jumpshot, too, as his rise-and-hit ability should allow him to get his shot off when he takes on the Big East at St. John’s. The NBA contingent appreciated Wood’s competitiveness—Thomas praised Wood’s ability to “back up all his talking.”