Before last week, no high school basketball player in North Carolina had ever scored more points in a career than JamesOn Curry. Curry, now 32, still keeps up with what’s happening in the prep basketball ranks. In early January, he watched some of the top highlight reels and mixtapes of up-and-coming players and clicked on one in particular from the John Wall Holiday Invitational.
A few weeks later, Curry got a call that his scoring record had been eclipsed. He saw the article online and then it dawned on him.
The player he had watched light up the Holiday Invitational, Coby White of Greenfield School in Wilson, was the same one who had topped him.