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Lani Smallwood

Combo Guard

2026 Class

5'7" Height

Albertville School

AL Southern Starz Club

National: 78
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Lani Smallwood is a 5'7" Combo Guard in the 2026 class. Smallwood attends Albertville in Alabama and plays club basketball for AL Southern Starz. Smallwood's Player Profile was created on January 9, 2022. Subscribe to Prep Girls Hoops to see where Lani Smallwood is ranked and what our scouts have written about them.

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Lani

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Class

2026

Height

5'7"

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Albertville

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Lani Smallwood

Lani Smallwood — PG | Class of 2026 | Albertville (Mississippi State Commit) When the scoreboard starts talking,...

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Lani Smallwood Lani Smallwood 5'7" | CG Albertville | 2026 State #78 Nation AL — PG | Class of 2026 | Albertville (Mississippi State Commit)

When the scoreboard starts talking, the scouting room starts listening. Lani Smallwood Lani Smallwood 5'7" | CG Albertville | 2026 State #78 Nation AL delivered a 42-point monster game in a win this week because chaos dared her to. Smallwood plays with scoring certainty, not curiosity — a three-level offensive sniper who touches paint, counters middies, and drops 3-pointers like truth bombs. Her 3-ball shines brightest, a weaponized skill that creates gravitational pull defending teams can’t ignore. She manipulates pace calmly until she detonates scoring runs violently — the perfect blend of poise + eruption. She attacks ball screens, soft hedges, drop coverages, and second level rotations with veteran-like reads and fearless shot counters. Defensively, she never takes the play off, but offensively, she takes entire runs over, confirming why she lives in Alabama “best player 2026” conversations even when the hype takes lunch. She doesn’t chase highlights — she creates them by impacting winning possessions with shooting, control, pace, paint pressure, and late-game counters. Smallwood proves hype isn’t required when production is nuclear. In the right system, she could score 30 quietly — or 40 loudly like she did this week.