BWI...and BWM...CHARM CITY n CHOCOLATE CITY High School BOYS Basketball Tradition...led by 'MELO and KD and Coach Morgan WOOTEN of DeMATHA

Another one of BLUEDUDE SPORTSTALK'S Special Features.....CITY HOOPS...the 4th Installment features the BWM...Baltimore and Washington D.C. Metro area.

A lot of Top Shelf PLAYERS have come out of the BWM and they have POWER HOUSE High Schools everywhere both Private and PUBLIC. Some of these POWERS you know all too well like:

BALTIMORE

DUNBAR HS
SOUTHERN HS
Towson CATHOLIC
CARDINAL Gibbons
John CARROLL
Archbishop SPALDING
ST. Maria GORETTA
Calvert HALL

WASHINGTON D.C. Metro Area

DeMATHA Catholic
MONTROSE Christian
COOLIDGE HS
St JOHN'S College HS


Every year there are a couple of these SCHOOLS ranked in the Top 25 High School Boys Basketball Poll. Some of the BIG TIME Coaching Names out of this area:

Dematha Catholic Morgan WOOTEN Hall Of FAMER...Legendary now is one of the Heads the McDonald All-American Committee

Bob WADE Baltimore DUNBAR HS later coached the Maryland Fighting TURTLES of College Park

O. Ray MULLIS Cardinal GIBBONS most WINS of any coach in CHARM CITY History

Some of the more notable names with excellent High School Basketball Pedigrees.



Now let's meet the PLAYERS who have called CHARM CITY and CHOCOLATE City the foundation for their HOOPS GAME:

Carmelo ANTHONY Towson CATHOLIC MD/Oak HILL Academy VA SYRACUSE

Donte GREENE Towson CATHOLIC SYRACUSE

Rudy GAY Bishop SPALDING UCONN

Melvin SCOTT Baltimore SOUTHERN UNC

Rodney MONROE St. Maria GORETTI NC STATE part of the DUO FIRE and ICE at NC STATE

Juan DIXON CALVERT HALL MARYLAND

Duane FERRELL CALVERT HALL Georgia TECH

Jeff GREEN NORTHWESTERN HS MD GEORGETOWN

Josh SELBY John CARROLL and DeMATHA CATHOLIC to name a few

BALTIMORE DUNBAR HS MD PLAYERS:
Reggie LEWIS NORTHEASTERN
Reggie WILLIAMS GEORGETOWN
Tyrone MUGSY BOGUES Wake FOREST
David WINGATE GEORGETOWN
Sam CASSELL San JACINTO TC CC/Florida STATE
Keith BOOTH MARYLAND
Donta BRIGHT UMASS
Michael LLOYD SYRACUSE

DeMATHA CATHOLIC HS MD PLAYERS:
Danny FERRY DUKE
Jerrod MUSTAF MARYLAND
Austin FREEMAN GEORGETOWN
Keith BOGANS KENTUCKY
Joseph FORTE UNC
Quinn COOK DUKE
Adrian BRANCH MARYLAND
Adrian DANTLEY Notre DAME
Derrick WHITTENBURG/Sidney LOWE NC STATE Back court that beat DREAM and PHI SLAMMA JAMMA for 1983 NCAA National CHAMPIONSHIP

MONTROSE CHRISTIAN MD

Kevin DURANT TEXAS
Greveis VASQUEZ MARYLAND.....they played in the same BACK COURT KD/VASQUEZ at MONTROSE

Chris WRIGHT ST JOHN'S College High School GEORGETOWN
Nolan SMITH ST JOHN'S College HS DUKE

This is just some of the TALENT like COLLEGE POWERS like MARYLAND College PARK, GEORGETOWN, SYRACUSE, DUKE, UNC, KANSAS, and others pull from.

NOTE: A majority of these P{LAYERS also went to Head COACH STEVE SMITH's OAK HILL ACADEMY to finish out like:

'MELO
KD
Nolan SMITH
Quinn COOK


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