Mikey Williams

NBA draft prospect Mikey Williams is returning to San Ysidro for his senior season. After two years playing at a prep school in North Carolina he has decided to conclude his senior season where it all started. His freshman year he was a cougar, and now he will close out his high school career as a Cougar.

Young hoops star has been playing in North Carolina for the last two years

Mikey Williams playing college basketball? As the five-star 2023 recruit and social media phenom concludes his junior season at Charlotte’s Vertical Academy, it’s looking like more and more of a possibility – despite some lucrative professional options. ...

Nationally ranked Combine Academy beat Huntington Prep in the featured game in the first day of the Charlotte Court XIV Classic at Northside Christian. The tournament brought together many regional and national powers for a two-day event at Northside Christian. One of the scheduled featured performers was Vertical Academy’s Mikey Williams. Williams didn’t play for Vertical Saturday. There was no official reason released.

Charlotte high school basketball star Mikey Williams plans to go to college for at least one year, according to both Williams and his father. Williams is a 17-year-old junior combo guard for Vertical Academy, a new basketball program in Charlotte created by his father, Mahlon Williams. A 5-star recruit, Williams is ranked No. 15 in 247Sports’ consensus rankings for the Class of 2023 and No. 1 in North Carolina.

National high school basketball phenom Mikey Williams and Vertical Academy will headline the first 1-of-1 Invitational, sponsored by Puma. 1-of-1 Academy is a new high school basketball program that was started by Charlotte Hornets point guard LaMelo Ball. The players on the team are mostly from Charlotte, though there are players on the boys team from Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee. The out-of-state players live in a team house near uptown Charlotte.

Mikey Williams, Trey Parker and Vertical Academy faced off against a TOUGH reading squad last night. The game went down to the wire and both squads gave it their all.

Most of the Vertical Academy players took the court ahead of their Friday night primetime game against Westtown School at the 2022 Hoophall Classic. Nearly every one of the 2,000 fans in attendance rose, phones out, ready to record the show. Mikey Williams waited in the depths of Blake Arena.

With his 5.5 million social media followers, his undeniable basketball talents and his tendency to go viral for just about anything, Mikey Williams was always in a good position to benefit from new NIL laws. But how much is the North Carolina prep star’s brand really worth? ...

Mikey Williams already has 3.4 million Instagram followers and is the most famous prep basketball player in America, but he appreciates the importance for his growing brand of playing games on television, too. When his high school games appear on the platforms of the NBC Sports Network, Williams likes that...

The Mikey Williams spotlight just keeps getting bigger. Williams, the 17-year-old basketball phenom and five-star 2023 recruit, already holds historic NIL deals with Excel Sports Management and Puma as he starts his junior season at Charlotte’s Vertical Academy. Now, with the majority of North Carolina’s 2022 basketball recruits signing letters...

The new NCAA NIL (name, image, likeness) rule that went into effect on July 1 that allows college athletes to profit from their images and reputations, has now trickled down to star high school athletes. Seventeen-year-old high school prep phenom Mikey Williams has signed a multiyear footwear and apparel endorsement deal with Puma. The deal makes him the first American high school basketball player to sign a sneaker deal with a global footwear company.

Williams, a combo guard, has been ranked as the 11th-best prospect in his high school class by ESPN.