Alonzo Mourning Once Blocked 27 Shots In A Single Game

Although there are no articles, or any footage of it, Mourning once recorded 27 blocks during one high school game. A mention in the 1989 edition of Boys’ Life Magazine, and a mention of it in the broadcast of the 1988 All American High School Basketball Game is all the proof we have that it actually happened.

Mourning’s high school performance made over 200 colleges try to recruit him before he finally decided on Georgetown University.

Mourning also became the only high school player to try out for the Olympics, but missed making the team by having been the second to last person being cut from the team during the Olympic Trials.