4-Star SG Akai Fleming Talks Potential Visits and Updates Recruitment
Akai Fleming is the No. 46 player in the 2025 On3 Industry Ranking. The 6-foot-4 shooting guard averaged 18.6 points this summer with the Atlanta Celtics program on the Adidas 3SSB 16u Circuit. Fleming started his junior season off with a 28-point and four-assist output for Marietta (GA) Osborne High.
“I’m a three-level scorer,” Fleming told On3. “I like to get to the basket and shoot the three. One thing that is special about me, I would say is my mid-range game. I watch a lot of Bradley Beal, his whole game. His mid-range, he’s got a deep bag for real.”
On3 caught up with four-star guard Akai Fleming at the recent Battle in the Peach to talk recruitment.
“The only official visit I have taken has been to Georgia Tech,” Fleming said. “I will probably take an official visit to Kansas State, and Auburn probably. I won’t visit them probably until this summer.”
Fleming Dives Into Georgia Tech
“It’s at home,” Fleming said. “They have been on me for a minute, so I wanted to go over there and see what all they had to offer. They focused a lot on the academic side on my visit, and I got to see their curriculum. They’re really big into academics.
“Coach (Damon) Staudamire is cool. I enjoyed getting to know him more. We had a little shootout on my visit. I can tell he is a good guy and a good coach. They’re guard-heavy and he gives the guards a lot of freedom to go out and make plays. Their locker room and their lounge area, I liked the best. They had good facilities.”
Fleming Talks Kansas State and Auburn
KANSAS STATE: “The coaching staff really sticks out for me. They are from the Virgin Islands, which is where my dad is from. They give their guards a lot of freedom to be themselves, and they would let me be myself and just work out if I went there. I talk a lot with Coach (Jerome) Tang, but it’s not really about basketball. We talk more about life and stuff outside of basketball.”
AUBURN: “They’re a good program, and they have won a lot recently. Bruce Pearl is a good coach. They had Sharife (Cooper) and they want me to come in and do some of that. Playing through the system, but taking my opportunities to score.”
“I’m hearing some from Tennessee and Kansas,” Fleming said. “They’re the only ones really talking to me that haven’t offered.”
At the end of the day
“Right now, I don’t really plan on taking any more official visits until next summer,” Fleming said. “And I’ll take them then and my senior year.
“I’m going to look at my relationship with the coaching staff, who I’m comfortable with. I want to see the facilities. And then the culture of the school will be big for me, the players, and the coaches. I want to play in a system that gets up and down and lets their guards play with some freedom. But I still want there to be some plays and some structure.”