While the McDonald's All American game will not be played for a second straight year, organizers on Tuesday announced 24 players named to the 2021 roster.
The 2021 McDonald's All American honorees join Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Shaquille
O’Neal as the next stars in a long list of high school basketball's top players.
Tuesday's roster announcement includes MaxPreps Player of the Year contenders Kennedy Chandler of Sunrise Christian Academy (Bel Aire, Kan.), Daimion Collins of Atlanta (Texas), JD Davison of Calhoun (Letohatchee, Ala.), Chet Holmgren of Minnehaha Academy (Minneapolis) and Jabari Smith of Sandy Creek (Tyrone, Ga.).
Five players chosen for the McDonald's All American roster have yet to play this year. Paolo Banchero of O'Dea (Seattle) joins Jackson Grant of Olympia (Wash.), AJ Griffin of Archbishop Stepinac (White Plains, N.Y.), Jaden Hardy of Coronado (Henderson, Nev.) and Peyton Watson of Long Beach Poly (Long Beach, Calif.) as honorees unable to take the court for their senior year.
The McDonald's All American game began in 1977 and has been played every year until 2020, when it was canceled due to
the pandemic.
Montverde Academy senior Caleb Houstan sets up for a jump shot.
File Photo: Annette Wilkerson
Height: 6-10 | Position: Forward | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-9 | Position: Center | Status: Duke
Height: 6-11 | Position: Center | Status: Oregon
Height: 6-8 | Position: Wing | Status: Baylor
Height: 6-4 | Position: Guard | Status: Michigan
Height: 6-1 | Position: Guard | Status: Tennessee
Height: 6-7 | Position: Guard | Status: Michigan State
Height: 6-9 | Position: Center | Status: Kentucky
Height: 6-2 | Position: Guard | Status: Alabama
Height: 6-9 | Position: Forward | Status: Michigan
Height: 6-8 | Position: Forward | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-10 | Position: Center | Status: Washington
Height: 6-7 | Position: Wing | Status: Duke
Height: 6-4 | Position: Guard | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-2 | Position: Guard | Status: Kentucky
Height: 7-0 | Position: Center | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-8 | Position: Wing | Status: Michigan
Height: 6-6 | Position: Wing | Status: Stanford
Height: 6-3 | Position: Guard | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-3 | Position: Guard | Status: Georgetown
Height: 5-9 | Position: Guard | Status: Mississippi
Height: 6-3 | Position: Guard | Status: Uncommitted
Height: 6-9 | Position: Forward | Status: Auburn
Height: 6-7 | Position: Wing | Status: UCLA
