When speaking with Keldon Johnson’s trainer, Jeremy Grubbs (now an assistant coach at First Love Christian in Washington, Pa.), on this week’s Hardly Committed (click here to listen), he casually referenced the time Keldon Johnson dropped 44 points in a comeback win against UNC’s JV team back in 2017.
Wait, what?
Yup. That’s right. It was Johnson’s junior year of high school and it was one of his last games at Huntington Prep before transferring to Oak Hill Academy to be closer to family for his senior season. Grubb’s, an assistant coach at Huntington Prep at the time, said that was when things started to click for the now 6-foot-6, 211-pound Kentucky freshman.