Mr. New York Basketball

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Mr. New York Basketball is an award presented to a senior high school basketball player living in the state of New York.[1] It is awarded by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York, and is considered to be very prestigious.[2]

Award winners

Year Player High School College NBA/ABA Draft
2023 Brandon Gardner[3] Christ the King USC
2022 Jaquan Sanders[4] Our Saviour Lutheran School Seton Hall
2021 Jordan Riley Brentwood High School Georgetown
2020 R. J. Davis Archbishop Stepinac High School North Carolina
2019 Joseph Girard III Glens Falls High School Syracuse, transferred to Clemson
2018 Savion Lewis Half Hollow Hills East Quinnipiac
2017 Isaiah Washington St. Raymond Minnesota, transferred to Iona, then to Long Beach State
2016 Kevin Huerter Shenendehowa Maryland 2018 NBA draft: 1st Rd, 19th overall by the Atlanta Hawks
2015 Matt Ryan[5] Iona Prep[5] Notre Dame[5] transferred to Vanderbilt,[6] graduate transferred to Tennessee–Chattanooga[7] 2020 NBA draft: Undrafted, signed two-way contract with the Boston Celtics in 2022
2014 Isaiah Whitehead Abraham Lincoln Seton Hall 2016 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 42nd Overall by the Utah Jazz traded to the Brooklyn Nets
2013 Jon Severe Christ the King Fordham transferred to Iona
2012 DaJuan Coleman Jamesville-Dewitt Syracuse
2011 (tie) Jabarie Hinds Mount Vernon West Virginia transferred to UMass
2011 (tie) Achraf Yacoubou Long Island Lutheran Villanova
2010 Tobias Harris Half Hollow Hills West Tennessee 2011 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 19th Overall by the Charlotte Bobcats traded to the Milwaukee Bucks
2009 (tie) Brandon Triche Jamesville-Dewitt Syracuse
2009 (tie) Lance Stephenson Abraham Lincoln Cincinnati 2010 NBA draft: 2nd Rnd, 40th Overall by the Indiana Pacers
2008 Sylven Landesberg Holy Cross Virginia
2007 Jonny Flynn Niagara Falls Syracuse 2009 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 6th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves
2006 Jonathan Mitchell Mount Vernon Florida transferred to Rutgers
2005 Greg Paulus Christian Brothers Academy (Syracuse) Duke transferred to Syracuse to play football
2004 Sebastian Telfair Abraham Lincoln No College 2004 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 13th Overall by the Portland Trail Blazers
2003 Tyler Relph McQuaid Jesuit (Rochester) West Virginia transferred to St. Bonaventure
2002 Jason Fraser Amityville Villanova
2001 Julius Hodge St. Raymond North Carolina State 2005 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 20th Overall by the Denver Nuggets
2000 Peter Mulligan St. Raymond Manhattan
1999 Leonard Stokes Turner Carroll (Buffalo) Cincinnati
1998 Anthony Glover Rice St. John's
1997 Elton Brand Peekskill Duke 1999 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 1st overall pick by the Chicago Bulls
1996 Willie Dersch Holy Cross Virginia
1995 Stephon Marbury Abraham Lincoln Georgia Tech 1996 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 4th overall by the Milwaukee Bucks
1994 Felipe López Rice St. John's 1998 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 20th overall by the San Antonio Spurs traded to Vancouver Grizzlies
1993 Danya Abrams Hackley Boston College
1992 John Wallace Greece Athena Syracuse 1996 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 18th Overall by the New York Knicks
1991 Terrence Rencher St. Raymond Texas 1995 NBA draft 2nd Rnd, 32nd Overall by the Washington Bullets traded to Miami Heat
1990 Jamal Mashburn Cardinal Hayes Kentucky 1993 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 4th overall by the Dallas Mavericks
1989 Kenny Anderson Archbishop Molloy Georgia Tech 1991 NBA draft: 1st Rnd, 2nd overall by the New Jersey Nets
1988 Malik Sealy St. Nicholas of Tolentine St. John's 1992 NBA draft 1st Rnd, 14th overall by the Indiana Pacers
1987 (tie) Greg Koubek Shenendehowa Duke
1987 (tie) King Rice Binghamton North Carolina
1986 Keith Robinson Grover Cleveland Notre Dame

Awards by school

School Number of Awards Years
Abraham Lincoln 4 1995, 2004, 2009, 2014
St. Raymond 4 1991, 2000, 2001, 2017
Shenendehowa 2 1987, 2016
Holy Cross 2 1996, 2008
Rice 2 1994, 1998
Mount Vernon 2 2006, 2011
Jamesville-Dewitt 2 2009, 2012
Christ the King 2 2013, 2023
Our Saviour Lutheran School 1 2022
Brentwood High School 1 2021
Archbishop Stepinac High School 1 2020
Glens Falls High School 1 2019
Half Hollow Hills East 1 2018
Iona Prep 1 2015
Long Island Lutheran 1 2011
Half Hollow Hills West 1 2010
Niagara Falls 1 2007
Christian Brothers Academy (Syracuse) 1 2005
McQuaid Jesuit (Rochester) 1 2003
Amityville 1 2002
Turner Carroll (Buffalo) 1 1999
Peekskill 1 1997
Hackley 1 1993
Greece Athena 1 1992
Cardinal Hayes 1 1990
Archbishop Molloy 1 1989
St. Nicholas of Tolentine 1 1988
Binghamton 1 1987
Grover Cleveland 1 1986

Most winners by college

Number Program Years
5 Syracuse 1992, 2007, 2009, 2012, 2019
3 Duke 1987, 1997, 2005
3 St. John's 1988, 1994, 1998
2 Seton Hall 2014, 2022
2 West Virginia 2003, 2011
2 Villanova 2002, 2011
2 Cincinnati 1999, 2009
2 Virginia 1996, 2008
2 Georgia Tech 1989, 1995
2 North Carolina 1987, 2020
2 Notre Dame 1986, 2015

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mr. New York". bcany. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  2. ^ "NYSSWA reference section: Mr. Basketball awards". www.newyorksportswriters.org. Retrieved 2023-09-11.
  3. ^ Weingarten, Jake (June 2, 2023). "Breaking: USC lands pledge from four-star senior Brandon Gardner". stockrisers.com. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
  4. ^ Schwach, Ryan (June 17, 2022). ""Mr. New York Basketball" – Far Rock's Jaquan Sanders Has Basketball Dreams On His Mind". The Wave. Retrieved November 3, 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Fallor, Evan (March 19, 2015). "Iona Prep's Matt Ryan named New York's Mr. Basketball". The Journal News. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  6. ^ Sparks, Adam (April 25, 2017). "Vanderbilt basketball lands Notre Dame transfer Matt Ryan". The Tennessean. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
  7. ^ "Chattanooga adds former Vanderbilt and ND forward Matt Ryan". USAToday.com. Associated Press. May 7, 2019. Retrieved February 12, 2020.