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As the Summer Camp's go into full swing we have a couple of updates that were passed along to us.

1.Shawn Kemp has said that the three schools that he is currently interested in are Washington, UK and Georgia

2. Russell Byrd a 6'7 190 junior power forward has said that Michigan State, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisville and Indiana have all been in contact with him. Byrd is a native of Fort Wayne Indiana.

3. Trae Golden: This should come down to UK and Ga.Tech with UK probably having the edge. I don't see Ohio State staying in the picture and it might be mutual.

I do know this the rumors of Golden's de-commitment have been around for some time and coincidently or not that's about the same time that Matta started to go after Anthony Johnson from Chicago very hard.What happened first is anyone's guess.

Both players are basically combo guards who may be more suited to play the 2 and it wouldn't make any sense to me for OSU to go after both,so either Matta was pro-active and started to go after Johnson or maybe Golden's recent drop in the rankings had Matta re-thinking the situation that maybe Johnson was a better fit and Golden caught wind of it an decided to open things up.

It very well may have been a mutual decision on both fronts and that is purely speculation on my part,but it would make sense OSU leads for Johnson at this point.

In either case I hope both recruits find a happy fit. If Johnson commits to OSU and Golden to UK I'm cool with that. This was passed along by a friend of the site who is an Ohio St. guy and keeps a close eye on developments in Columbus.

As you may or may not know Shawn Kemp Jr. Is the son of Sonics stud and daddy dud, Shawn Kemp. The Kemp family has lived a highly publicized life, having to deal first with Shawn seniors’ highly flamboyant NBA career and second his drug and addiction problems, not to mention his debacle at Kentucky. Kemp’s entire life has been displayed over the air waves of ESPN and FSN like a soap opera of sorts.

The Kemp name has had a chance to be out of the constant scrutiny that the media produced for a couple of years. The down time produced another chance for the Kemp name, Shawn Kemp Jr. Junior has shattered the slience with huge tomahawk dunks. Kemp Jr. is a 6′9 defenders nightmare, tabbed as a project by some and a phenom by others. I guess it depends on how critical you are.

The kid is extremely athletic and has a nice repertoire of post moves. Kemp Jr, is in so many ways his fathers son, passionate, confident and plays like he hates the rim. Kemp has a fairly large list of interested high major teams: Alabama, UCON, IU, Georgia, Georgia Tech, Auburn, Ole Miss and Tennessee are some of his notable options. Alabama is believed to be the favorite for the young talent’s services. The Cat’s have been in contact with Kemp for sometime, but as of now no formal offer has been extended. Kemp Jr. did tell Scout.com in late May that he believed an offer from IU was on the horizon. It has also been reported that UCON has been showing heavy interest in Jr. of late. If you haven’t seen the kid in action and would like to, there are a couple of videos in the recruiting central player on the right.

For now, Jr has detached himself from his fathers’ more recent, forgetable past. Planting himself squarly in 1996, in a pair of his fathers Kamikaze’s, vicously attacking the rim and most importantly on the right track.