The 2024 Pangos All-American Camp, the 22nd edition of the top-notch summer individual showcase event annually held in Las Vegas, showed once again why the event has a something for everyone. Over its first two days, the camps showcases plenty of under-the-radar talent, a plethora of big men and some of the nation’s finest perimeter players. We take a look at a duo without even one offer and some of the standout bigs.
With the grassroots event calendar getting tighter each summer because of the voluminous number of event across the country and abroad, it would be easy to focus on the elite national level talent who were unable to participate at the 2024 Pangos All-American Camp do to event conflicts or other issues, but what that accomplished from the “half full” perspective was create opportunities for other hungry college-bound players.
The Pangos All-American Camp is designed for national Top 150 prospects, but with the way college recruiting is set up nowadays with the robust NCAA transfer portal, colleges are not focused on high school players outside the Top 50 in credible national rankings, give or take 25 players. Not many of the rising seniors (2025) have committed to college yet where in year’s past a handful would already by the time the event that traditionally tips-off summer commences.
Camp Director Dinos Trigonis invited some without the national fanfare but with the talent to take a legitimate shot at being considered a national Top 150 recruit.
Incredibly, two players, one guard and one big man, came into the camp with zero offers but will leave with plenty of national buzz. And expect the offers to come, too. The guard was 6-foot-2 Darrell Brown Jr., a 2025 prospect out of West Nottingham Academy (Colora, Md.). In the first camp game, Brown’s athleticism and explosive drives to the basket turned heads. However, as the game went, it wasn’t hard to evaluate that his other skills were up to par too, as Brown is a deft ball-handler and can knock down the perimeter shot enough to keep defenses honest against playing him for the drive. He plays in the mold of former USC and NBA guard Robert Pack by packing alot of punch around the rim in a small guard’s body.
National scouts were a bit shocked to see Brown didn’t have an official offer on the table. Which may be a first for a standout Pangos Camp player.
The post player who fell into the same offer category as Darrell Brown was 7-foot rising senior (2025) Tammar Brown of Rocktop Acadey (King of Prussia, Pa.). Now, there can be a variety of reasons why a player doesn’t have an offer, especially with big men who develop in the later stages of their high school career. For the soft-spoken Brown, however, it isn’t difficult to see he’ll be a much improved player two years from now and has a chance to develop into a legit NBA prospect.
