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‘Did not see this coming.’ How Alabama edged South Carolina for Juwan Gary

With an open floor ahead of him, Juwan Gary seized the opportunity. His two-handed dunk not only put the exclamation point on his team’s win Friday morning at Peach Jam, it was done with a certain spectator nearby.

Avery Johnson sat courtside for Gary and Team United’s 82-66 win over Houston Hoops. He was watching a player who was about to become his own. Shortly after Gary, a rising senior at Gray Collegiate, announced his pledge to Johnson and Alabama, the Crimson Tide coach essentially confirmed it with a tweet of celebratory emojis.

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