Devin Carter, a second-generation NBA player, had hoops in his blood from day one. His dad, Anthony Carter, grinded out a thirteen-year career in the NBA, bouncing between six different teams before diving straight into coaching, eventually landing a player development role with the Heat after stops in the G-League.
From Miami Prep Star to Florida Player of the Year
Life with a coach dad meant Devin grew up on the move, starting high school in Greenwood Village, Colorado, before his family’s relocation for his father’s Heat job brought him to Doral Academy Prep in Doral, Florida. This isn’t some fancy private basketball factory, by the way. Doral Prep is a publicly funded school in Miami-Dade, and get this: Devin Carter is their only notable basketball alum!
He joined the Doral squad the year *after* they snagged a state championship, but it didn’t take him long to make his own mark. Picture this: as a 16-year-old junior in December 2018, Carter went absolutely OFF at the A-Rod Classic. Doral Academy won the tournament by a single point, 46-45, against The Rock. Devin? He scored a mind-blowing 32 of those 46 points and was named tournament MVP. A week later, he dropped 37 of his team’s 60 points in a 60-48 win over Miami Springs. Later that February, he put up 30 of Doral’s 49 points in a state tournament win over Belen, marking their 52nd consecutive victory. His junior year numbers were insane, with 25.7 points and 5.8 rebounds per game, earning him Florida’s Player of the Year honors for his classification. Seriously, what a showing!
The Shoulder Injury and The High-Stakes Bet at Brewster
Despite those ridiculous stats, college recruitment wasn’t exactly blowing up for Devin. The University of South Carolina showed interest, largely thanks to a friendship between their coach and Doral Prep’s boys’ basketball coach, Jorge Fernandez. But other major programs? Not so much. He hadn’t even signed a letter of intent during the early signing period of his senior year.
Things got even tougher when Devin suffered a shoulder injury in February 2020 during what was shaping up to be an even more stellar senior campaign. Before the injury, his scoring average had jumped to 28.8 points per game, along with 8.7 rebounds. To boost his skills and finally grab more attention on the college circuit, Carter made a huge decision: he opted for a post-graduate year at the Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. We’re talking about a small, rural school near Lake Winnipesaukee, about a hundred miles north of Boston, where a single post-graduate year for tuition, room, and board costs a staggering $80,800. That’s a serious investment, all to raise his athletic profile and show the college scouts what he’s truly capable of. You gotta respect the hustle when the stakes are that high.
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Originally reported by Celtics Blog.
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