Howard Garfinkel

Howard Morris Garfinkel (August 1, 1929 – May 7, 2016) was an American high school basketball scout who ran the well-known Five-Star Basketball Camp from 1966 to 2008.

Career Garfinkel played high school basketball at Barnard High School in The Bronx. In 1965, he started High School Basketball Illustrated, a scouting service that was based on New York area players. This was a major recruiting tool for 20 years, for college coaches nationwide looking for players in the city known for its basketball talent. when the NCAA ended such camps. His camps produced over 600 NBA players and 10,000 NCAA Division I players, He was inducted in 2014 into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. Garfinkel died in May 2016, reportedly as the result of lung cancer. He was posthumously inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.