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The Top Ranked Basketball Players of All-Time from Tennessee High Schools
Notes: This is a list of the greatest pro players who finished high school in this state.
What players did in high school or college does not factor into this list.
| School | Athlete | POS | Rookie Yr | Overall Rank |
| Alcoa (Alcoa) | Tommy Woods | PF | 1968 | 10409 |
| Aquinas (Nashville) | D.J. Harrison | SF | 2003 | 17957 |
| Arlington (Memphis) | C.J. Anderson | SG | 2019 | 20287 |
| Austin (Knoxville) | Duke Hogue | C | 1963 | 3850 |
| Austin-East (Knoxville) | Elston Turner | SG | 1982 | 1998 |
| Battleground Academy (Franklin) | Bob Harris | PF | 1950 | 844 |
| Baylor (Chattanooga) | Reggie Upshaw | SF | 2018 | 10724 |
| Bearden (Knoxville) | Ty Greene | PG | 2016 | 15179 |
| Believe Prep (Athens) | Jason Preston | PG | 2022 | 8532 |
| Believe Prep (Athens) | Dexter Dennis | SG | 2024 | 14394 |
| Blackman (Murfreesboro) | Darius Thompson | SG | 2019 | 4669 |
| Bolivar Central (Bolivar) | Wayne Chism | PF | 2011 | 16477 |
| Bolton (Arlington) | Sylvester Gray | SF | 1989 | 8000 |
| Bradley (Cleveland) | Alvin Scott | SF | 1978 | 1729 |
| Bradley (Cleveland) | Dee Gibson | SG | 1949 | 1737 |
| Bradley (Cleveland) | Buddy Cate | PF | 1951 | 2297 |
| Bradley Central (Cleveland) | Terrence Oglesby | SG | 2010 | 19933 |
| Brainerd (Chattanooga) | Malcolm Mackey | PF | 1994 | 9368 |
| Brentwood (Brentwood) | Darryl Jackson | SF | 2022 | 5154 |
| Brentwood Academy (Brentwood) | Darius Garland | PG | 2020 | 866 |
| Brentwood Academy (Brentwood) | Brandan Wright | PF | 2008 | 2997 |
| Brentwood Academy (Brentwood) | David Harrison | C | 2005 | 6333 |
| Briarcrest Christian (Eads) | Austin Nichols | PF | 2018 | 9778 |
| Briarcrest Christian (Eads) | Leslie McDonald | SG | 2015 | 20061 |
| Brownsville (Brownsville) | Dwight Waller | SF | 1969 | 6352 |
| Cameron (Nashville) | David Vaughn | C | 1975 | 3371 |
| Cane Ridge (Antioch) | Brandon Miller | SF | 2024 | 2211 |
| Carver (Memphis) | Qyntel Woods | SF | 2003 | 3711 |
| Carver (Memphis) | Willie White | SG | 1985 | 7580 |
| Carver (Memphis) | Taj McCullough | PF | 2009 | 15674 |
| Central (Bolivar) | Willie Kemp | PG | 2011 | 18539 |
| Central (Memphis) | Lester Hudson | PG | 2010 | 4087 |
| Central (Memphis) | Tyler Stone | SF | 2015 | 8191 |
| Central Merry (Jackson) | Todd Mundt | C | 1994 | 14645 |
| Cheatham County (Chapmansboro) | Ryan Stack | PF | 1999 | 5571 |
| Christian Brothers (Memphis) | Drew Barham | SG | 2015 | 19942 |
| Clarksville (Clarksville) | Shawn Marion | SF | 2000 | 173 |
| Clarksville (Clarksville) | Trenton Hassell | SF | 2002 | 1856 |
| Clarksville (Clarksville) | Brock Gillespie | PG | 2006 | 17254 |
| Clinton (Clinton) | Toree Morris | C | 2005 | 16467 |
| Clinton (Clinton) | Dedrick Dye | PG | 2004 | 18310 |
| Coffee County Central (Manchester) | Charles Edmonson | PF | 1989 | 7592 |
| Covington (Covington) | Demetrius Denzel-Dyson | SG | 2019 | 19719 |
| Craigmont (Memphis) | Terrico White | SG | 2011 | 9248 |
| Dickson County (Dickson) | JeQuan Lewis | PG | 2018 | 11254 |
| Donelson Christian (Nashville) | Adam Sonn | C | 2004 | 18195 |
| Dresden (Dresden) | Popeye Jones | PF | 1994 | 1388 |
| East (Memphis) | Cedric Henderson | SF | 1989 | 3002 |
| East (Memphis) | James Wiseman | C | 2021 | 6930 |
| East (Memphis) | Tony Harris (1979) | PG | 2002 | 10546 |
| East (Memphis) | Anthony Douglas | PF | 1994 | 17651 |
| East (Memphis) | Courtney Pigram | PG | 2010 | 17656 |
| East (Memphis) | Nick King | SF | 2019 | 19167 |
| East (Memphis) | Reuben Clayton | SG | 2012 | 20477 |
| East (Nashville) | Calvin Garrett | SF | 1981 | 4531 |
| Ensworth School (Nashville) | Jordan Bone | PG | 2020 | 7882 |
| Exell-Harding Christian (Antioch) | Julian Terrell | PF | 2007 | 17007 |
| Fairley (Memphis) | Corey Beck | PG | 1996 | 5549 |
| Fairley (Memphis) | Willie Jenkins | SF | 2006 | 15453 |
| Fairley (Memphis) | Dwight Stewart | PF | 1996 | 16757 |
| Fairley (Memphis) | Marlon Towns | SG | 2001 | 18283 |
| Fayette-Ware (Somerville) | Carlos Clark | SG | 1984 | 5640 |
| Franklin (Franklin) | Garrison Mathews | SG | 2020 | 6183 |
| Frayser (Memphis) | Vincent Askew | SG | 1988 | 1982 |
| Fulton (Knoxville) | Ron Widby | SF | 1968 | 10101 |
| Gallatin Union (Nashville) | Bill Ligon | SG | 1975 | 6895 |
| Germantown (Germantown) | George Price | PF | 1962 | 3689 |
| Germantown (Germantown) | Ian Clark | SG | 2014 | 3986 |
| Germantown (Germantown) | Austin Hollins | SG | 2015 | 7113 |
| Greeneville (Greeneville) | Antwaine Wiggins | SF | 2013 | 17688 |
| Grove (Paris) | Dan King | PF | 1955 | 2562 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Todd Day | SG | 1993 | 1288 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Jerome Mincy | PF | 1987 | 2076 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Al Henry | C | 1971 | 3590 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Dedric Lawson | PF | 2020 | 11462 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Harvey Thomas | SF | 2005 | 13306 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Jeremy Williams | SF | 2012 | 17790 |
| Hamilton (Memphis) | Courtney Bohannon | SF | 2008 | 19359 |
| Hamilton Heights Christian (Chattanooga) | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | SG | 2019 | 429 |
| Hamilton Heights Christian (Chattanooga) | Nickeil Alexander-Walker | SG | 2020 | 2396 |
| Hamilton Heights Christian (Chattanooga) | Uros Plavsic | C | 2024 | 8381 |
| Haywood (Brownsville) | Tony Delk | PG | 1997 | 1762 |
| Haywood (Brownsville) | Jarvis Varnado | PF | 2013 | 8071 |
| Hillcrest (Memphis) | Galen Young | SF | 2000 | 5920 |
| Hillcrest (Memphis) | Mark Buford | C | 1994 | 15780 |
| Hillwood (Nashville) | Charles Hathaway | C | 2002 | 16440 |
| Holston Valley (Holston Valley) | Bob Hogsett | PF | 1967 | 5889 |
| Howard (Chattanooga) | George Finley | C | 1962 | 4623 |
| Howard (Chattanooga) | Johnny Taylor | SF | 1998 | 9202 |
| Humboldt (Humboldt) | Desonta Bradford | SG | 2019 | 10577 |
| Hume-Fogg (Nashville) | Alex Renfroe | PG | 2010 | 4605 |
| Johnson County (Mountain City) | Milas Shoun | C | 1938 | 4796 |
| Johnson County (Mountain City) | Slim Shoun | C | 1928 | 5234 |
| Karns (Knoxville) | Doug Roth | C | 1990 | 15172 |
| Kingsbury (Memphis) | Mike Butler | SG | 1969 | 3413 |
| Kirby (Memphis) | DeAngelo Riley | PF | 2012 | 19944 |
| Lausanne (Memphis) | Marc Gasol | C | 2009 | 239 |
| Lausanne (Memphis) | Cameron Payne | PG | 2016 | 2630 |
| Lausanne (Memphis) | Skal Labissiere | PF | 2017 | 7033 |
| Lester (Memphis) | Rich Jones | PF | 1970 | 682 |
| Lester (Memphis) | Charlie Paulk | PF | 1969 | 3286 |
| Lipscomb Academy (Nashville) | Clyde Lee | PF | 1967 | 492 |
| Lipscomb Academy (Nashville) | Oliver Simmons | PF | 2001 | 16852 |
| Manassas (Memphis) | Michael Wilson | PG | 1984 | 6763 |
| Manassas (Memphis) | Reginald Becton | PF | 2014 | 20050 |
| Marshall City (Lewisburg) | Marcus Haislip | PF | 2003 | 3237 |
| Martin Luther King (Nashville) | Gerald Robinson | PG | 2013 | 12792 |
| Maryville (Maryville) | Lee Humphrey | PG | 2008 | 12704 |
| McGavock (Nashville) | Charles Davis | SF | 1982 | 2683 |
| McMinn County (Athens) | JaJuan Smith | PG | 2009 | 19115 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Bingo Smith | SF | 1970 | 596 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Larry Finch | SG | 1974 | 3341 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | William Bedford | C | 1987 | 4582 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Ronnie Robinson | PF | 1974 | 6189 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Jemerrio Jones | SF | 2019 | 6934 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Jerry Dover | PG | 1972 | 11590 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Adonis Thomas | SF | 2014 | 12578 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Michael Wilson (1972) | SG | 1997 | 14716 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Markel Crawford | SG | 2019 | 16598 |
| Melrose (Memphis) | Bobby Ray Parks | SG | 2016 | 18706 |
| Middleton (Middleton) | Bailey Howell | PF | 1960 | 85 |
| Middleton (Middleton) | Lowery Kirk | PF | 1962 | 3572 |
| Middleton (Middleton) | Steve Hamer | C | 1997 | 10094 |
| Middleton (Middleton) | Bobby Parks | SG | 1985 | 11904 |
| Millington (Millington) | Tony Dumas | SG | 1995 | 5556 |
| Mitchell (Memphis) | Thaddeus Young | PF | 2008 | 556 |
| Mitchell (Memphis) | Rick Roberson | C | 1970 | 888 |
| Mitchell (Memphis) | Andre Turner | PG | 1987 | 3453 |
| Mitchell (Memphis) | Jeremiah Martin | PG | 2020 | 5944 |
| Mount Juliet (Mount Juliet) | Tom Marshall | SF | 1955 | 1222 |
| Munford (Munford) | Jonathan Stark | PG | 2019 | 14738 |
| North Side (Jackson) | Casey Prather | SG | 2015 | 6874 |
| Northeast (Clarksville) | Alex Poythress | PF | 2017 | 4680 |
| Northside (Memphis) | Tony Windless | SG | 1993 | 14472 |
| Oak Ridge (Oak Ridge) | Otis Howard | PF | 1979 | 7959 |
| Overton (Memphis) | Johnny Neumann | SG | 1972 | 1057 |
| Overton (Memphis) | Sergio Kerusch | SG | 2012 | 14691 |
| Overton (Memphis) | Brandon Wharton | SG | 2000 | 17646 |
| Pearl (Nashville) | Les Hunter | PF | 1965 | 854 |
| Pearl (Nashville) | Ted McClain | SG | 1972 | 981 |
| Perry County (Loblesville) | Kirk Haston | SF | 2002 | 8284 |
| Portland (Portland) | Corey Brewer | SF | 2008 | 1285 |
| Raleigh Egypt (Memphis) | Arnett Moultrie | PF | 2013 | 6285 |
| Raleigh Egypt (Memphis) | Scooter McFadgon | SF | 2006 | 11457 |
| Raleigh Egypt (Memphis) | Cory Bradford | PG | 2003 | 12978 |
| Ridgeway (Memphis) | Tarik Black | C | 2015 | 3881 |
| Ridgeway (Memphis) | Derrick Byars | PF | 2012 | 5845 |
| Ridgeway (Memphis) | Jalen Crutcher | PG | 2022 | 9619 |
| Riverside (Chattanooga) | Anthony Roberts | SF | 1978 | 2928 |
| Sheffield (Memphis) | Randy Culpepper | PG | 2012 | 12544 |
| Sheffield (Memphis) | Chris Crawford (1992) | SG | 2015 | 16039 |
| South Side (Jackson) | Jaylen Barford | PG | 2019 | 11814 |
| Southside (Memphis) | Arlyn Bowers | PG | 1992 | 19728 |
| Southwind (Memphis) | Jarnell Stokes | PF | 2015 | 6160 |
| Southwind (Memphis) | Johnathan Williams | C | 2019 | 8247 |
| St. George's (Collerville) | Elliot Williams | PG | 2012 | 5199 |
| Station Camp (Hendersonville) | John Jenkins | SG | 2013 | 5083 |
| Stratford (Nashville) | Dontae' Jones | SF | 1998 | 10340 |
| Tennessee Prep (Memphis) | Damion Baugh | SG | 2024 | 17075 |
| Tennessee Temple Academy (Chattanooga) | Michael Ojo | C | 2018 | 11485 |
| The McCallie School (Chattanooga) | Reed Rawlings | SF | 2001 | 8918 |
| The McCallie School (Chattanooga) | Ron Anderson Jr. | PF | 2013 | 15321 |
| The Webb School (Bell Buckle) | Keon Johnson | PG | 2022 | 10477 |
| Treadwell (Memphis) | Penny Hardaway | PG | 1994 | 206 |
| Treadwell (Memphis) | Elliot Perry | PG | 1992 | 2054 |
| Treadwell (Memphis) | Hank McDowell | PF | 1982 | 3767 |
| Treadwell (Memphis) | Chris Garner | PG | 1998 | 4719 |
| Treadwell (Memphis) | Lamarcus Golden | PG | 1997 | 17448 |
| Trezevant (Memphis) | Jimmie Hunter | SG | 2001 | 5598 |
| Trezevant (Memphis) | Adrian Banks | SG | 2009 | 16198 |
| Washington (Memphis) | Lorenzen Wright | PF | 1997 | 963 |
| Washington (Memphis) | McKinley Singleton | PG | 1987 | 6860 |
| Washington (Memphis) | Antonio Burks | PG | 2005 | 7777 |
| Washington Academy (Limestone) | Filip Videnov | SG | 2004 | 11083 |
| Washington Academy (Limestone) | Mustafa Al-Sayyad | C | 2006 | 17263 |
| White Station (Memphis) | Chris Chiozza | PG | 2019 | 5274 |
| White Station (Memphis) | J.P. Prince | SF | 2011 | 7956 |
| White Station (Memphis) | Ferrakohn Hall | SF | 2014 | 15846 |
| White Station (Memphis) | Joe Jackson | PG | 2015 | 17945 |
| White Station (Memphis) | Nino Johnson | PF | 2016 | 19492 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | John Best | SF | 1994 | 6310 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Octavius Ellis | PF | 2017 | 9315 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Marvin Alexander | C | 1989 | 12900 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Ron Huery | SF | 1992 | 14122 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Mike Fofana | PF | 2020 | 18058 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Javion Hamlet | SG | 2022 | 18555 |
| Whitehaven (Memphis) | Steve Mitchell | PG | 1987 | 18931 |
| Whites Creek (Nashville) | David Vaughn III | PF | 1996 | 6083 |
| Whites Creek (Nashville) | Odell Bradley | PF | 2005 | 10341 |
| Whites Creek (Nashville) | Demonte Harper | SG | 2012 | 12627 |
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