{"id":304337,"date":"2023-06-05T17:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304337"},"modified":"2023-06-05T17:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T17:58:18","slug":"watch-4-star-pf-brandon-gardner-announces-commitment-to-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304337","title":{"rendered":"Watch: 4-star PF Brandon Gardner announces commitment to USC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">USC basketball is building up a special 2023 class.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A few weeks ago, they scored the highest-profile recruiting win in years as they earned a\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/bronny-james-commits-to-usc-mens-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">commitment from Bronny James<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Bronny may not stay long before he jumps to the NBA, but for now, his presence will make the Trojans a draw for other top high school basketball recruits around the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Last Thursday, another blue-chip recruit joined the group. Here&#8217;s how Christ the King Regional (NY) four-star power forward Brandon Gardner announced his commitment to the Trojans on his Twitter page.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">100% committed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FightOn?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FightOn<\/a>  <img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/2764.png\" alt=\"\u2764\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/><img src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/14.0.0\/72x72\/270c-1f3fd.png\" alt=\"\u270c\ud83c\udffd\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em;max-height: 1em\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kVTu1LEg8B\">pic.twitter.com\/kVTu1LEg8B<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Brandon Gardner (@bgardner2023) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bgardner2023\/status\/1664669297799462919?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Going by the 247Sports composite rankings, Gardner (6-foot-7, 210 pounds) is No. 4 in the state of New York, <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Season\/2023-Basketball\/CompositeRecruitRankings\/?InstitutionGroup=HighSchool&amp;Position=PF\">No. 21 among power forwards<\/a> and No. 91 nationally in the class of 2023. He\u00a0had offers <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Recruitment\/Brandon-Gardner-142284\/RecruitInterests\/\">from 21 other programs<\/a>, including St. John&#8217;s, Alabama, DePaul, NC State and Wake Forest.<\/p>\n<p>USC&#8217;s class of 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/college\/usc\/Season\/2023-Basketball\/Commits\/\">now ranks No. 4<\/a> in the nation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More basketball stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/michael-porter-jr-jokes-trae-young-brandon-roy-are-jealous-hes-in-finals\">Michael Porter Jr. jokes Trae Young, Brandon Roy jealous he&#8217;s in Finals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/nikola-jokics-agent-discovered-center-in-serbian-newspaper-signed-him-without-seeing-him-play\">Nuggets C Nikola Jokic&#8217;s agent discovered him in a Serbian newspaper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>USC basketball is building up a special class of 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304337"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304339,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304337\/revisions\/304339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}