Coveted Stojakovic, Peja's son, chooses Stanford

Top-25 elder Andrej Stojakovic, the lad of erstwhile NBA All-Star Peja Stojakovic, announced his committedness to Stanford connected Monday.

Stojakovic chose the Cardinal implicit Texas, UCLA and Oregon. He took aggregate visits to his finalists implicit the people of the summertime and aboriginal fall, with some Stanford and Texas making beardown pushes down the stretch.

A 6-foot-7 tiny guardant from Jesuit High School (California), Stojakovic is ranked No. 24 successful the ESPN 100 for the 2023 class. He skyrocketed from extracurricular the apical 100 entering the outpouring to a borderline five-star imaginable aft stellar showings connected the Adidas grassroots circuit for the Compton Magic program.

"There is simply a batch to similar astir his game," ESPN National Recruiting Director Paul Biancardi said. "His scoring tools and tribunal beingness basal retired the most. He plays the crippled with large poise, confidence, scoring interaction and passing ability. Much similar his dad, helium is precocious playing from a live-ball, triple-threat presumption with clever changeable fakes and jab steps to determination his defender. He moves without the shot to make abstraction and with the shot successful his hands, his caput is up and his eyes are open, surveying the court.

"Because of his background, helium understands spacing and the value of moving the shot to the unfastened man. His quality to dilatory down oregon velocity up and execute some connected the perimeter oregon successful the overgarment is amusive to watch."

Stojakovic is the 2nd top-30 imaginable to perpetrate to Stanford successful the 2023 class, joining Georgia autochthonal Kanaan Carlyle (No. 29), who plays for Overtime Elite.

This besides marks the 3rd clip successful 4 years that manager Jerod Haase has landed a top-25 recruit, pursuing Ziaire Williams successful 2020 and Harrison Ingram successful 2021.