Four-star 2027 point guard King Kendrick planning two fall visits

As I sat courtside to watch class of 2027 prospect King Kendrick at Nike EYBL Peach Jam, two coaches from another 15u team settled in behind me with their starting point guard.

Their lesson for him during the contest was simple: watch Kendrick. Watch how he controls the game.

Down the stretch, Kendrick delivered the perfect demonstration. Late in a tight game vs. Team Durant, instead of hunting his own shot, Kendrick, the four-star point guard out of Combine Academy (NC), repeatedly made the right read and recorded four-straight assists to end the game and give Team CP3 a 67-65 win over Team Durant.

When the final buzzer sounded, the two coaches again glanced at their 15u point guard and raised their eyebrows. The overarching message? You don’t have to score to take over a game.

And being that type of point guard is something that Kendrick takes a lot of pride in.

“There's not a lot of true point guards in the country right now, and I feel like I'm one of the best,” Kendrick said. “I don't have to put the ball in the basket to affect the game. I can on the defensive end and I can also by finding guys, and that's what I did. I just kept making the right plays and at the end of the day, if you make the right plays, the singles — Chris Paul always tells me make the singles, make the singles. And that's what I did in the fourth quarter."

Kendrick is also a rare commodity because he’s ambidextrous, meaning he can shoot with both hands. Sometimes he pulls up for shots with his left, and other times with his right. Growing up, Kendrick wrote left-handed because his family did, but eventually he started writing with his right hand.

"Then, like when it came to basketball, I started being really truly ambidextrous in sixth grade because I started working on it, started actually doing it,” Kendrick said.

Nowadays with years under his belt playing ambidextrously?

“It's just natural,” Kendrick said. “I don't even realize I'm doing it now. I just see it on the tape and I'm like, 'Oh yeah, I did do that.' Just, whenever someone forces me a certain way, I might shoot with this hand -- but I can shoot with either hand on any spot on the court. I don't make it difficult because I work on it so much to where I don't think about it in game."

As the point guard of the Team CP3 program, Kendrick has also received tutelage from one of the NBA’s all-time greats.

“It's crazy, it's really wild man,” Kendrick said of Chris Paul’s lessons. “Some people couldn't even dream of being coached by one of the best, if not the best point guard ever in the NBA. So just learning from him, he talks to me every day: texts me, calls me, shows me little thing I can do in my game. And I just take it all in. I'm just a sponge. Every time he says anything, I take it in and use it on the court." 

With his play this summer and after averaging 14.8 points and an EYBL-best 6.7 assists at Peach Jam, Kendrick is now set to focus on his recruitment. He currently holds offers from Charlotte, Duquesne, East Carolina, High Point, Mississippi State, Northwestern, South Florida, UTEP and more.

But which programs are standing out, and where is Kendrick looking at for fall visits? The four-star broke down his recruitment below:

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