Tag: Mikel Brown Jr.

A top ten 2025 recruit schedules a visit with Kentucky basketball

Top ten 2025 recruit Mikel Brown Jr will be visiting Kentucky basketball in September.

Kentucky basketball and coach Mark Pope landed Malachi Moreno, and many expect Jasper Johnson to follow next week. However, they aren’t sitting back and waiting. Mikel Brown Jr, another top 2025 recruit, will be heading to Lexington for a visit.

Brown is a 6’3″, 165 point guard out of Florida, and is considered a five-star recruit. He is currently ranked as the number eight overall player in the 2025 class by 247sports, and the number two point guard.

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Kentucky offered Brown back in June, but hadn’t set up an official visit. That has now changed, according to Kentucky Sports Radio, who is reporting that Brown will visit Lexington September 27th to the 29th.

Pope and Kentucky are waiting on some key decisions, but they can’t afford to be complacent. Brown is a terrific player, and regardless of what happens with other recruits, he would be a very good addition to the Wildcats roster.

Kentucky basketball makes an offer to 2025 recruit Mikel Brown Jr.

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope has made an offer to 2025 guard Mikel Brown Jr.

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope has made a flurry of scholarship offers in the past few days, including ones to center Chris Cenac and forward Niko Bundalo. Now, he has made another, this time to 2025 guard Mikel Brown Jr.

Pope first contacted Brown back in May, but has now, according to Overtime Elite, extended an offer. He also have offers from multiple other top programs. In the SEC, the Alabama Crimson Tide, Tennessee Volunteers, and Florida Gators, among others, have made offers.

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Brown is a top 15 player in the 2025 class, ranked 13th in 247sports composite rankings. He’s their number two overall point guard in the class.

Fair or not, Mark Pope is going to be judged quickly on how well he’s able to recruit. It’s too early to tell how his first recruiting class will look, but he isn’t shying away from targeting some of the top players in the class. Brown is definitely one of them, and fans will wait and see how his recruitment plays out.

Kentucky coach Mark Pope makes contact with 2025 recruit Mikel Brown Jr.

Kentucky basketball coach Mark Pope contacted top 15 recruit Mikel Brown Jr.

For fans of Kentucky basketball, it seems as though each new days brings a new 2025 recruit that the Wildcats are in contact with. The newest name on the list is Mikel Brown Jr.

Brown is the 15th ranked player overall by 247sports. The 6’2″ 165 lb point guard has a five-star grade and is the second best point guard in the class.

According to Jacob Polacheck of Kentucky Sports Radio (subscription required), Mark Pope called Brown after watching him play over the weekend. The Overtime Elite star apparently impressed everybody who saw him play.

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Obviously, as such a highly-ranked player, he has a number of teams interested. A number of SEC teams have offered him already, including the Tennessee Volunteers, Auburn Tigers, and Alabama Crimson Tide. He has already taken visits to Alabama and Ole Miss.

Pope and the Kentucky staff are in the process of feeling out a lot of the top recruits in 2025. It will be his first class with the Wildcats, and fans are watching closely. There’s no way to say yet how successful he’ll be with the recruiting class, but he’s definitely putting in the work.

Report: OKC Thunder scouts in attendance for several 2024/2025 high school recruits

The Thunder were in attendance for the Adidas All-American Camp, which featured several of the top 2024 and 2025 recruits.

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While it’s the slowest month of the year in the NBA calendar, that hasn’t stopped teams from continuing to work — especially collecting data on potential draft prospects.

That was the case for the Oklahoma City Thunder and several other NBA teams who attended an Adidas All-American camp, per Yahoo Sports draft expert Krysteen Peek.

The Thunder were in attendance to watch a handful of high school juniors and seniors that will likely populate the 2026 and 2027 NBA draft classes. The list of participants included:

  • Five-star guard Ian Jackson, who is in the class of 2024 and committed to North Carolina
  • Four-star forward Khani Rooths, who is in the class of 2024
  • Four-star guard Kur Teng, who is in the class of 2024 and committed to Michigan State
  • Three-star forward George Turksan, who is in the class of 2024 and committed to Texas A&M
  • Four-star guard Mikel Brown Jr., who is the class of 2025
  • Four-star guard JJ Mandaquit, who is in the class of 2025

 

Here is a list of first-round picks the Thunder own during the 2026 and 2027 NBA drafts:

  • 2026 Thunder first-round pick
  • 2026 Clippers first-round pick
  • 2026 Rockets top-4 protected first-round pick
  • 2027 Thunder first-round pick
  • 2027 Nuggets top-5 protected first-round pick

It’s never too early to collect a profile for potential draft prospects — even if they’re three years out. The Thunder — along with most of the league — is using the summer camp to start building profiles of potential NBA players.

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Alabama MBB offers 2025 PG Mikel Brown Jr.

The Alabama coaching staff recently extended an offer to 2025 point guard Mikel Brown Jr. Brown Jr. plays for Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kansas.

The Alabama coaching staff extended an offer to 2025 point guard Mikel Brown Jr. on Friday.

Brown Jr. plays for Sunrise Christian Academy in Wichita, Kansas. As a junior, he was a part of a team that had several elite 2023 prospects like five-stars Layden Blocker and John Bol.

He is regarded as the top player in Kansas by every recruiting circuit for the 2025 class. In comparison to recent point guards at Alabama, he is relatively smaller in stature. Brown Jr. stands at 6 feet, 150 pounds.

He will have time to grow as he will begin his junior season in the fall. It will be interesting to see how Alabama’s coaching staff decides to pursue the Florida native. He is currently being pursued heavily by Kansas State. The Wildcats are the favorite to land Brown Jr. at 100% likelihood, according to On3’s RPM.

Roll Tide Wire breaks down Mikel Brown Jr.’s recruiting profile.

Auburn offers 5-star shooting guard Darryn Peterson

The Tigers have entered the mix for one of the top players in the 2025 recruiting cycle.

[autotag]Bruce Pearl[/autotag] and the Auburn Tigers have officially entered the race for one of the top players in the 2025 recruiting cycle. They extended an offer to five-star shooting guard [autotag]Darryn Peterson[/autotag] Monday afternoon according to The Circuit’s Alex Karanos.

The 6-foot-5, 195-pounder is from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and already has over 20 scholarship offers and was a MaxPreps first-team Sophomore All-American last season. He averaged 31 points, 9.0 rebounds, and 3.0 steals for Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy.

Peterson is the No. 4 overall player and No. 1 shooting guard in the 247Sports Composite ranking. He is also the No. 1 player from Ohio.

The Tigers are still looking for their first commit of the 2025 recruiting cycle but have already extended offers to some of the top recruits in the country including five-star point guards [autotag] Mikel Brown Jr.[/autotag] and [autotag]Aaron Rowe[/autotag] as well as Peterson.

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