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He was the number one high school basketball player in America in his class.
In November of last year, he gave that ranking up on purpose. Nobody asked him to.
To understand it you have to go back several years.
A kid from Gilbert, Arizona walks into Perry High School and proceeds to win everything available to him.
Back-to-back 6A state championships. A 27-2 season as a sophomore, closing the year ranked fourth nationally.
There was nothing left in his home state to prove, so he left it.
He crossed the country to Prolific Prep in Fort Lauderdale, away from his family, to be coached harder.
It worked. He averaged eighteen points, ten rebounds, four assists and two blocks a game there.
By the fall he was ranked number one in the entire class of 2027, with a full year still in front of him.
Then he reclassified. He moved up into 2026, and dropped from first in his class to sixth.
He traded the top ranking in the country for a harder room, a year early, against older and stronger players.
Then came the second decision, and it was the harder of the two by a distance.
He chose the program whose previous freshman had just been taken first overall in the NBA draft.
He walked straight into that comparison instead of around it.
Kansas wanted him. Kentucky, Louisville, Arizona, Houston, Miami and USC all wanted him.
In March he started for Team East at the McDonald's All-American Game in Glendale, back in his home state and the youngest player on the floor.
Six foot seven, with a seven-foot-one wingspan and a frame that has barely begun to fill out.
He does not turn eighteen years old until late October — in the middle of his freshman season.
His name is Bruce Branch III.
Only one signee in BYU history has ever been rated higher than he is. He chose to follow that man rather than avoid him.
Every single step this young man has taken has been toward the harder version of whatever came next.
That is not a ranking. That is a character trait, and it is the one that actually survives contact with college basketball.
Now you see the whole picture.
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