{"id":275242,"date":"2024-04-11T20:54:47","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/?p=275242"},"modified":"2024-04-16T09:38:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T16:38:39","slug":"usa-basketball-koa-peat-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/usa-basketball-koa-peat-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Basketball: Koa Peat Interview!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-8LlPRubyq4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><b>RELATED:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/usa-basketball-eye-catchers\/\">Staton An Eye-Catcher At USA Basketball <\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the recent <i>USA Basketball Junior National Team Mini-Camp<\/i> in Arizona, we had a chance to interview <b>Koa Peat<\/b> of FAB 50 No. 22 Perry (Gilbert, Ariz.). The 6-foot-8 rising senior (2025) is one of the well-established players in the nation. He's also a Team USA veteran who should be one of the leading players on this summer's team at the <i>FIBA 17U World Cup<\/i>, June 29-July 7 in Istanbul, Turkey.  <\/p>\n<p>If Team USA captures the Gold Medal in Turkey, it was be a third gold medal for the 17-year old who could go down as the most accomplished Arizona high school basketball player, ever. Peat, already a two-time Gatorade State Player of the Year, averaged a team-high 17.2 ppg during the <i>2023 FIBA 16U Americas Championship<\/i> in Merida, Mexico and also contributed 8.3 rpg, 3.2 apg and 1.5 spg in six contests. He was also part of the gold-medal winning team at the <i>2022 FIBA 17U World Cup<\/i> in Malaga, Spain and for his accomplishments was named <i>2023 USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>We talk with Peat about his camp experience, his vast experience with USA Basketball and what he hopes to accomplish this summer, and to give us some insight about not losing a high school playoff game yet with his senior season to come.    <\/p>\n<p><i><em>Ronnie Flores is the national Grassroots editor of Ballislife.com. He can be reached at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:ronnie@ballislife.com\"><em>ronnie@ballislife.com<\/em><\/a><em>. Don't forget to follow him on Twitter:\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ronmflores\">@RonMFlores<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total Winner Looking For More! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":275243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8316,1444,3176,6886,8320,38,46250,23192],"tags":[],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-275242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-all-blogs","category-events","category-exclusive-videos","category-grassroots-coverage","category-high-school","category-news","category-profiles"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>USA Basketball: Koa Peat Interview! - Ballislife.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:\/\/ballislife.com\/usa-basketball-koa-peat-interview\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"USA Basketball: Koa Peat Interview! 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