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Overview
An athletic wing player that will fit well into the Memphis system ... A "slasher" that can get to the basket ... Improved his perimeter shooting as a high school senior, but needs to be more consistent from the arc to be a real threat.
High School
A consensus top-50 recruit ... Rated No. 36 by Rivals.com, No. 38 by ESPN150 and No. 43 by RiseMag.com and Scout.com ... Ranked among the country's top small forwards by ESPN150 (5), Scout.com (8) and Rivals.com (11) ... Earned 2007 MaxPreps.com national All-America honorable mention distinction ... Named to the 2007 Associated Press New Jersey All-State, NJ Hoops and The Star-Ledger All-State first teams ... Selected the 2006-07 Star-Ledger Union County Player of the Year ... Also named to The Star-Ledger's All-Senior and All-Windex teams ... Averaged a double-double of 19.8 points and 10.2 rebounds ... Helped lead St. Patrick's to a 30-2 overall record and a second-straight NJSIAA Tournament of Champions (T of C) crown in 2007 ... Averaged 21.5 points and 10.6 boards in the Celtics' run to the T of C crown ... St. Patrick's finished the 2006-07 campaign ranked No. 2 in the USA Today High School Boys Basketball national poll ... Also ranked the nation's No. 3 team in SI.com/RiseMag.com's final high school poll ... The Celtics posted a 7-1 record against teams ranked in the 2007 USA Today Super 25 poll, including a 4-0 mark against top-5 squads... St. Patrick's was named The Star-Ledger's Team of the Year ... Scored 21 points and grabbed six rebounds in helping lead St. Patrick's to an 85-61 win over Bloomfield Tech in the T of C title game ... The Celtics set a T of C title game record with 85 points ... Scored a team-high 23 points in the T of C semifinal win over Seton Hall Prep ... Had 29 points and 11 boards in leading St. Patrick's to an 85-56 victory over Wildwood Catholic to capture the Celtics' third-straight NJSIAA Non-Public B title ... Scored 12 points to help the Celtics defeat perennial power St. Anthony en route to the Non-Public B state title ... In a regular season classic vs. Huntington (W. Va.) High School (O.J. Mayo, Patrick Patterson) before a crowd of 9,000 on the Marshall University campus, netted 23 points and scored the game-winning basket with :33 left in overtime for the 78-76 win (televised by ESPN) ... Had 21 points, including four treys, in a 66-60 upset win over St. Benedict's of Newark, then ranked No. 1 nationally by USA Today ... Had 22 points in the Celtics' win over Fairfax (Calif.) in the Hoophall Classic held in Springfield, Mass. ... Metro Hoops also named him New Jersey's high school basketball's Top Dunker and the state's No. 2 small forward ... Named to 2006-07 Metro Hoops New Jersey preseason All-State first team ... St. Patrick's posted a 58-6 record his last two seasons (2005-06, 2006-07) ... Played in the Jordan Brand All-American Classic at New York City's Madison Square Garden ... Scored 17 points in 15 minutes of action in helping lead the Yellow team to a 127-119 win ... Hit a game-best three treys and added three blocked shots ... Also played in the adidas Kentucky Derby Festival All-Star Classic in April 2007 ... As a junior in 2005-06, helped lead St. Patrick's to a 29-4 mark and the T of C title ... The Celtics were named The Star-Ledger's Team of the Year ... Was named to The Star-Ledger 2005-06 All-Union second team and the paper's All-Junior first team ... Was rated the No. 7 player in the New York/New Jersey/Delaware are by Metro Hoops.
Personal
Full name is Jeffrey Lee Robinson Jr. ... Son of Jeffrey Robinson Sr. and Delores Bethea ... Major is undecided.
