By Matt Smith
That million-dollar smile of Rondae Hollis-Jefferson’s tells you all you need to know about the pride of Chester High.
The young man is a keeper.
He was born and raised in the high school basketball capital of Pennsylvania, a city too often in the news for the wrong reasons.
But Hollis-Jefferson is a beaming light, a shining star for Chester, Delaware County.
It doesn’t matter what the two-time Daily Times Player of the Year accomplishes in terms of an NBA career. He’s already hit the proverbial jackpot.
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Thursday night, he became the first Chester guy to be drafted since Tyreke Evans in 2009, who attended charter school at now defunct American Christian in Brookhaven. Hollis-Jefferson follows in the footsteps of another class act, Jameer Nelson, who has enjoyed a fruitful NBA career that is 10 years running.