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Portillo and Martinez were pretty disappointing after HS. Martinez rode the pine at Kentucky, Portillo didn't work out at a number of stops, including UF. Doug Edwards was very good at FSU and played a few yrs in the NBA.

I think he played at UM in the late 50s/very early 60s. A guard from basketball-rich Indiana, a state Bruce Hale raided regularly for top HS talent. There must been a half dozen HS stars from Indiana that Bruce recruited to great effect in the 60s. Guys like Mike McCoy, Wayne Beckner, John...

At Curley, Baptiste (6'9, 230) was a Parade Magazine HSAA. Maybe the very first one ever from So Fla. Another player who was excellent, even before Baptiste, was a guy named Stan McKenzie. He was a smooth shooting Forward from Miami Northwestern HS who graduated in 1963. At the time...

Yeah, Jim Valvano recruited him to NC State. Played there with Rodney Monroe and Tom Gugliotta. Great PG, shooting and assists. Born in the Gables, he mighta changed our hoops history a bit if he'd signed here. We had a decent team of guys he coulda played with -- Joe Wylie, Trevor Burton...

My bad. Ur right, he played at Boyd Anderson.

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