A Josiah Turner feature

Bill Paterson offers a lengthy feature on Josiah Turner in today's Sacramento Bee. It begins:

Turner's summer is hardly a vacation
Bill Paterson
Sacramento Bee
June 23, 2010

Josiah Turner is one of the top prep basketball prospects in the country. The Sacramento High School senior has received more than a dozen high-profile scholarship offers, including ones from Kansas, Wake Forest and Georgia Tech.

One recruiting service, www.rivals.com, ranks the 6-foot-3 Turner as the No. 22 player overall and the No. 5 point guard nationally among those scheduled to graduate in 2011.

Yet The Bee's 2009-10 Boys Player of the Year isn't satisfied...

Here's a million dollar quote:

"It's really stressful," said Ron [Nelson], whose son, DeMarcus, lived the recruiting experience before deciding on Duke last decade. "In some cases you are dealing with (recruiters) whose careers are based on lying to people. … You've got to be careful."

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