5-foot-5 Ottawa Hills graduate is feature in Lebron Jame’s new Samsung Galaxy Note II commercial. In the new commercial he is featured when Lebron is in the barber shop and watches a video of Porter dunking and says “Oh, I gotta send that out, man,”.

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PJC Dragons Basketball Player Named NJCAA Region XIV Player of the Week

Paris Junior College freshman Ladon Carnegie from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has just been named the National Junior College Athletic Association Region XIV Basketball Player of the Week. PJC is in Paris, TX.

“I think it’s a great accomplishment,” said PJC Head Basketball Coach Chuck Taylor. “I’m really proud of him. It shows how far our team has come in a short time and we need the other guys like him to step up now.”

Ladon is a graduate of Grand Rapids Union High School, where he played for Coach Terrence Williams.

Picture: Paris Junior College freshman Ladon Carnegie, No. 22, scores for PJC in a recent game against Oklahoma Baptist University’s Junior Varsity team.

Division II Pre-Season Player of the Year

Note: This story was originally published online at mlive.com by Sandy Gholston on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, and is available via the link below: http://blog.mlive.com/crimson_and_gold_report/2010/10/ keenan_earns_national_preseason_player_of_the_year_ by_division_ii_bulletin.html

It’s looking like Ferris State University men’s basketball star Justin Keenan is continuing to get his due on the national Division II stage.

Keenan, a 6-foot-6 native of Grand Rapids who prepped at the city’s Ottawa Hills High School, was selected as the Division II Bulletin National Preseason Player of the Year for the upcoming 2010-11 season. A 2009-10 State Farm® Coaches’ All-America First Team selection (the first Division II All-American honor for a Ferris men’s basketball player in school history), Keenan led the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference in scoring last season at 21.1 points per contest.

Keenan already has garnered a good deal of All-American recognition since the end of last season (2009-10) and this preseason.

Head coach Bill Sall and his staff worked hard in the off season to add players to the team that will help Keenan continue to do work in and out of the paint. New additions like DeMarco Sanders, Jerrell Sanders, Kenny Brown and Brandyn Mungo are among the new guys who could help the solid core the Bulldogs already had returning led by Keenan, Darien Gay, Daniel Sutherlin, Matt DeHart and others.

(Photo/Ed Hyde, FSU Photographic Services)

The former Grand Rapids Public Schools alumni, Justin Keenan (Ottawa Hills) & Jerrell Sanders (Creston) play in the exhibition game against the Big Ten Indiana Hoosiers and look to lead Ferris State to a GLIAC title.