Cade Cunningham is the top prospect in the 2020 class, a McDonald’s All-American on the best high school team in the country, an Oklahoma State signee and now a Naismith Player of the Year Finalist.
The Atlanta Tipoff Club announced the five finalists for high school basketball’s player of the year award Thursday morning. Cunningham being included on the list was somewhat of a formality.
Now the wait is for March 10 when the award is dished out to see if Cunningham can join the likes of Chris Webber (1991), Jason Kidd (1992), Kobe Bryant (1996), Lebron James (2003), Dwight Howard (2004), Ben Simmons (2015) and Lonzo Ball (2016), just to name a few, as Naismith winners.