Top 10 highest-rated Kentucky HS basketball players of all time
7. Ray Spalding
Spalding is another player seeking to make his way back into the NBA. As the leader for the Trinity Shamrocks, Spalding averaged 13 points and 8.7 rebounds during his senior season on his way to a 0.9838 rating by .
After his time with the Shamrocks, Spalding decided to stay in his hometown at Louisville. Across three years with the Cardinals, the forward averaged 8.2 points, 6.4 rebounds and 0.9 assists playing in 98 games with 48 starts.
Following his junior campaign, Spalding declared for the 2018 NBA Draft where he was taken in the second round, No. 56 overall, by the Philadelphia 76ers. He has played two seasons in the NBA with the Dallas Mavericks, Houston Rockets and Phoenix Suns, playing in a total of 16 games with three starts. Spalding is currently a member of the Rockets’ G-League affiliate Rio Grande Valley Vipers where he is averaging 11 points, 7.6 rebounds and 1.7 assists across 14 games.
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— RGV Vipers (@RGVVipers)
