Durant Jr.! Baba Oradoton, No. 1 in the United States in 2027, announced his jump to the 2026 class

Baba Oladotun, the No. 1 player in the 2027 ESPN official website list, announced that he will skip to the 2026 class, was born in December 2008, from Baltimore, and will graduate from Blake High School in Maryland next spring. Although he was only 16 years old, Oladotun followed the footsteps of top high school players such as AJ Dybantsa and Cooper Flagg to choose to skip. Oladotun won't turn 17 until December, which is very similar to Flagg's timeline for skipping to the 2024 class.

is expected to enter the top 10 of this year in the next ranking update of the 2026 ESPN official website list.

Baba Oladotun

, 6-9 (2 meters 06), with a wingspan of 6-11, has become a U17 team in Maryland this summer. Oladoton is expected to be selected for the 2026 McDonald's All-Star Game and has the opportunity to become a top 10 pick in the 2027 NBA Draft.

His father Ibrahim Oladotun played at Virginia Tech, and his recruitment will also be strengthened with Oladoton's skip, with teams including Arkansas, Maryland, Virginia Tech, Kansas, Kentucky, Duke and Gonzaga University actively participating.

Baba Oladotun

Among these schools, he plans to first visit the home team, the University of Maryland and his father's alma mater, Virginia Tech, and Oladoton also informally visited UCLA and the University of Southern California (USC) last year.