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born 2003 · South Bend by birth and formation
Blake Carrington Wesley was born March 16, 2003, in South Bend, and played at James Whitcomb Riley High School, four miles from the campus he would join — the first South Bend public-school basketball player to sign with Notre Dame since 1985. One season was all he needed: he became the first one-and-done player in Notre Dame's program history, and on June 23, 2022, San Antonio took him 25th overall — the second South Bend native taken in that first round, twenty picks after Ivey, and the seventh South Bend native ever drafted by the NBA. The registers carry him afterward with San Antonio, Portland and the Clippers' organization. Of all the names in this record, his is the purest formation story of the modern game: born here, schooled here, colleged here, and drafted out of here in the first round.
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- Notre Dame athletics, June 23, 2022 — the 25th overall selection, the one-and-done first, the first public-school signee since 1985.
- South Bend Tribune / Notre Dame Insider — the seventh South Bend native drafted, and the two first-round picks of June 23, 2022.
- RealGM register — the South Bend birth, Riley High School, and the teams carried since.