AKRON, Ohio — Teenage summers can be a blur, but for Taran Buie, this one seems to be flying by at a particularly blinding pace.
Since wrapping up his junior year at Bishop Maginn High School in Albany, N.Y., Buie has led his Albany City Rocks AAU team in the vaunted Rumble in the Bronx tournament; traveled to Dallas to compete in the Nike Deron Williams Skills Academy as one of the top 20 point guards in the country; and helped his family move to a new home in Boalsburg.
And that was just in June.
“It’s been a busy month,” Buie said.
The Nittany Lion hoops commit spoke earlier this week in Akron, where he was among a pool of 80 top high school players at the LeBron James Skills Academy, Nike’s annual invitation-only summer camp. Buie sat on a wooden bleacher between sessions, holding a precautionary ice bag to his ankle — “It’s fine,” he said, “just taking care of my body” — and talking excitedly about his future in Happy Valley.” …