Two-hundred and thirty-eight.
Two-hundred and thirty-eight high-school basketball players were ranked ahead of Caris LeVert in the 2012 college recruitment rankings. Some of the players ranked higher than LeVert included Brett Boese, Quenton DeCosey, Blaise Mbargorba (?), Reggie Dillard (??), and Laimonas Chatkevicius (???). In fact, to find the next-closest current NBA player on the list, you’d have to look a full fifty-one spots ahead of Caris LeVert. (That player being fundamentals connoisseur, Taurean Prince).
Caris LeVert’s meteoric rise to stardom has been the story of the 2019 Brooklyn Nets, as he’s already become the number one option on the team.