Jonny Flynn, Circa 2006

Posted by Kevin Arnovitz Reporter Nate Beutel composed an outstanding three-part series on Flynn for the Niagara Gazette in December 2006, just before the start of Flynn's senior season of high school ball. We caught up with Beutel this week and asked him to introduce the series. Beutel generously obliged: Jonny Flynn: "He's that damn good." (Joe Robbins via Getty Images) Niagara Falls likes to consider itself the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." For this Cataract City scribe, the years spent watching Jonny Flynn craft his game on the hardwood of Niagara Falls High School's Wolvearena was like a honeymoon in my own backyard. The Falls has always been a hotbed for basketball, but Flynn took it to new heights. He helped NFHS to a state title and national prominence, earned all-American status, signed a full scholarship to Syracuse and even laced 'em up for Team USA's under-19 World Championship squad. He also had an all-American hom...