{"id":1549,"date":"2013-06-15T14:32:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-15T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2013-06-15T14:32:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T18:32:42","slug":"city-of-basketball-love-shep-garner-commits-to-penn-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-shep-garner-commits-to-penn-state\/","title":{"rendered":"City of basketball Love: Shep Garner commits to Penn State"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>After a bit of a slow start, Pat Chambers&#8217; Philadelphia ties are starting to pay off in Penn State\u2019s recruiting. Four days after 2015 Imhotep forward Michael Watkins verbally committed to the Nittany Lions, Chambers and his staff got a big commitment from 2014 Roman Catholic guard Shep Garner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVery deserving, very proud of him, hardworking kid and I know he really connected well with the staff,\u201d Roman coach Chris McNesby told CoBL by phone from Penn State, where Roman was playing at their team camp this weekend. \u201c(Associate head) coach (Brian) Daly and coach Chambers both have Philadelphia connections and they recruited him hard throughout the process.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofbasketballlove.com\/2013\/06\/shep-garner-continues-psus-philly-recruiting-streak\/\">Shep Garner continues PSU\u2019s Philly recruiting streak | City of Basketball Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j9mHgMTV7mI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a bit of a slow start, Pat Chambers&#8217; Philadelphia ties are starting to pay off in Penn State\u2019s recruiting. Four days after 2015 Imhotep forward Michael Watkins verbally committed to the Nittany Lions, Chambers and his staff got a big commitment from 2014 Roman Catholic guard Shep Garner. \u201cVery deserving, very proud of him, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-shep-garner-commits-to-penn-state\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;City of basketball Love: Shep Garner commits to Penn State&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City of basketball Love: Shep Garner commits to Penn State - PennStateHoops.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pennstatehoops.com\/pennstatehoops-com-has-ceased-operations\/city-of-basketball-love-shep-garner-commits-to-penn-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City of basketball Love: Shep Garner commits to Penn State - PennStateHoops.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"After a bit of a slow start, Pat Chambers&#8217; Philadelphia ties are starting to pay off in Penn State\u2019s recruiting. 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