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The 2007 High School Recruiting class was one of the most stacked ever, headlined by names like Derrick Rose, Michael Beasley, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love and James Harden, but top ranked recruit was OJ Mayo. Mayo was a high school phenom who drew comparisons to both LeBron James and Kobe Bryant throughout one of the most illustrious and well documented high school careers ever, culminating in a legendary senior season for Huntington Prep. The league had implemented the "one and done" rule while he was in high school, so he had to spend a year in college where he starred for the USC Trojans. Then would go 3rd overall in the 2008 NBA draft, his career had such a promising start, as he joined an up and coming Grizzlies team with Rudy Gay, Mike Conley, Zach Randolph and Marc Gasol and was one of their best all around players, but as his time there went on, his role was reduced and he became restless. So he would leave for a Dirk Nowitzki led Dallas Mavericks team in 2013, and after a good year there he went in search for long term deal and signed with a MIlwaukee Bucks team who were about to start the Giannis Antetokounmpo era, but Mayo would go on a steep decline until he received one of the NBA"s harshest drug-related suspensions in history, and even though he could have came back, he never did, as he spent the rest of his playing days overseas. OJ mayo's basketball story is interesting and completely unexpected based on the hype around him as a teenager, but it also has to be clear that it was nowhere near a failure.
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