Florida basketball signee Kenny Boynton is one of five finalists for the 2009 Naismith Boy's High School Player of the Year.

The list is determined by the Atlanta Tipoff Club's Board of Selectors, comprised of leading basketball journalists and administrators from around the country, which based its criteria on player performances this season.

Winners will be selected in early March and will be recognized at the annual Naismith Awards banquet March 23, 2009 at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta.  The Naismith Trophy is the most
prestigious national award presented annually to high school basketball's player of the year.

Boynton, a 6-foot-2 guard from American Heritage School in Plantation, averaged more than 30 points per game this season.

Here are the other finalists:

DeMarcus Cousins, LeFlore High School (Mobile, AL)

Derrick Favors, South Atlanta High

Renardo Sidney, Fairfax Senior High, (Los Angeles, CA)

John Wall, Word of God Christian Academy, (Raleigh, NC)