re: Best player that you played HS ball with

college. SIU when I was in grad school. Walt Frazier
Frazier was particularly gratifying, in that he asked me to scrimmage against him, so he could develop his backcourt skills, when he was making the transition from small forward after his soph year to guard.
high school. Paul Fredrickson LaGrange, Lake Charles, he was a senior when I was a junior. He played hoops two years for Cleveland, ABA.
LaGrange, also had Ralph Knuihuizen who was all state center, his senior year, with whom I played one on one games in his driveway, to SEVENTY, all summer (in the heat of Lake Charles) when he was a soph and I was a junior.
While Ralph garnered all state honors and Paul F didnt, Paul was better, IMO. Ralph was LaGrange valedictorian, went to Rice, played at Rice, and then went to Yale law. Paul made it to the pro's. Blessings to them both.