(Photo: Max Ortiz, The Detroit News)
Charlottesville, Va. — It’s been roughly three decades since Michigan coach Juwan Howard burst onto the Chicago high-school basketball scene.
But according to Chicago Whitney Young combo guard DJ Steward, Howard’s name still carries weight with recruits in the Windy City.
“It means a lot,” Steward said Friday at the National Basketball Players Association Top 100 Camp at the University of Virginia. “My coach from Whitney Young, Coach (Tyrone) Slaughter, talks very highly of him, so I'm really getting excited to get to know him.”
Howard, who was born and raised in Chicago, starred at Chicago Vocational and spent three seasons on the varsity team from 1988-90 where he built up his game and fame.