On the same weekend he received the devastating news that he had torn his ACL, Las Vegas High wing Ray Smith brought down some good news.
He has committed to Arizona.
The 6-foot-7 small forward had recently cut his list for a second time to include Arizona, Arizona State, Texas, UConn, Georgetown, Louisville, UCLA, USC and Cal. (He then added UConn.)
“My son’s dream is to go to the NBA,” Bobby Smith, Ray’s father, recently told SNY.tv.
“I was looking at the draft and kind of saying, ‘Who does Ray compare to?’ I couldn’t find anybody completely that you could say, ‘OK, he’s like him.’ …He’s maybe a little Nik Stauskas, maybe a little Jabari [Parker], a big wing who can do a lot. So I know he has some value because he can do a lot of things. Of course he has to get a lot better, I’m not unrealistic.
“But we want to pick a program that can develop him into what his dreams are, and then it will just be up to him whether he makes it or not.”
Smith joins point guard Justin Simon in Arizona’s 2015 recruiting class.
It typically takes 6-8 months to recover from ACL surgery.
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