HARRIS HEADS TO ABCD CAMP
Little more than a week ago, Will Harris was set to attend the adidas basketball camp in Georgia that is taking place this week.
But days before the Reebok ABCD camp was set to tip off at Fairleigh Dickinson in Hackensack, AAU coach Gary Charles got a call regarding the 6-foot-7 former Christ the King player who has spent the past two years at Redemption Christian Academy in Troy.
“I heard he wanted to come here,” said Charles, who runs the powerful Long Island Panthers AAU program and helps put together the ABCD camp. Harris just switched teams from the Juice All-Stars to the Panthers. “When you’ve got a guy that good, you make room for him.”
So Harris, a 6-foot-7, 230-pound Queens resident, will spend the next four days at FDU, trying to impress college coaches, as well as NBA scouts, as they scurry around the country to the three major sneaker-sponsored camps.
“This time of year is a big opportunity for me,” said Harris, 17, who left Christ the King after spending his sophomore year on the JV. This will be his fifth year of high school. “I have a lot to prove, but I know that I can do it.”
He’s been off to a good start this summer. Harris starred at an NBA camp in Virginia last month that featured some of the best players in the country.
As for which camp to go to, Harris said it wasn’t that big a deal. “They’re all good,” he said. “I don’t think there’s that much difference from one camp to another. They all have the best players in the country, so it’s just a matter of what you do when you get there.”
No matter how well he does, Harris isn’t sure if he wants to make the ever more popular leap straight from preps to the NBA.
“The guys who did that pulled off something big,” Harris said. “For me, it’s kind of far away, but it’s always in the back of my mind.”


