Class of 2024 who? Breaking down the very best high school

Jeff Borzello, ESPN Staff WriterJul 13, 2023, 08:00 AM ET

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• Basketball recruiting insider.
• Joined ESPN in 2014.
• Graduate of University of Delaware.For high school senior citizens, the summer season after their junior year is when their recruiting class officially takes center stage. In the spring, college coaches and fans are preoccupied with the transfer website and the shuffling of lineups. However come summertime, these players move into focus.This month, though, it would be easy to forget the 2024 class is technically the

  next group in line. That’s since the 3 finest potential customers in all of high school basketball– Cooper Flagg, Cameron Boozer and A.J. Dybantsa– are in the 2025 and 2026 classes. They had the stat lines that went viral and the games that drew the most eyeballs at last week’s Nike’s EYBL Peach Jam in North Augusta, South Carolina.Boozer was the top-ranked player in the 2025 class– and the No. 1 player no matter class– entering the summer; Flagg was No. 2 in

  both groups prior to presenting among the most dominant well-rounded performances we have actually seen at the elite youth basketball occasion; and Dybantsa, the No. 1 player in the 2026 class, led the Peach Jam in scoring, in spite of highlighting 2 age groups.What makes this trio even more intriguing is the age aspect. Boozer won’t turn 16 years old until next week. Flagg is 16 and seven months, and Dybantsa is five weeks younger than him. Flagg is extensively rumored to be thinking about a reclassification into the 2024 class, and Dybantsa could possibly eye a relocation into the 2025 class. And Boozer and Flagg played on the Nike circuit in the 16U division, with Dybantsa playing in the 17s. But there’s a chance that Boozer, Flagg and Dybantsa– three of the best potential customers in recent memory– could all remain in the very same high school(and NBA draft)class.So who is the very best of the group? We asked 20 college coaches and NBA scouts for their rankings and thoughts on the Flagg-Boozer-Dybantsa chain of command.