O.J. Mayo, the nation's top high school basketball player, told USA TODAY on Monday that he'll transfer to Huntington High of West Virginia, in the city where he grew up.

Mayo said he will be in class Tuesday after transferring for his senior season from North College Hill in Cincinnati, making it three schools in four years.

Mayo did not want comment on his reasons for the move, but said, "It's exciting to go home, but it's sad leaving North College Hill. I consider Cincinnati a second home."

Huntington already returns three Division I-caliber players, most notably power forward Patrick Patterson, whose college suitors include Florida, Kentucky, Duke, Virginia and Wake Forest.

With O.J. Mayo entering his senior year of high school, sneaker companies are looking at Renardo Sidney, a 6-foot-9 16-year-old, as the next big thing.

Sonny Vaccaro, who advises Mayo, said in a telephone interview that Reebok paid Sidney?s father, Renardo Sr., $20,000 a year as a consultant.

Duke's Josh McRoberts had a lumbar diskectomy Thursday morning at Duke University Medical Center.

He is expected to be ready for the start of the 2006-2007 season.