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Corperryale "Manny" L'Adorable Harris (born September 21, 1989) is a professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association. He is a former All-Big Ten Conference guard who played three seasons for the Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team. He decided to forgo his final year of collegiate eligibility and declare himself eligible for the 2010 NBA Draft, but went undrafted. Harris previously attended Redford High School in Detroit, Michigan, where he was a two-time All-State first team selection and won the state's Mr. Basketball award as a senior. He led his team to three consecutive Detroit Public School League championships. Harris is one of only five Big Ten Conference basketball players to have finished in the top ten in the conference in scoring, rebounding, and assist average in the same season and prior to Evan Turner's 2009-10 season, Harris' 2008-09 season was the only time a player had finished in the top six of all three categories.

At Michigan, he was a 2008–09 first team All-Big Ten Conference selection, a 2007–08 second team All-Big Ten selection and a 2009–10 third team All-Big Ten selection. Harris also earned Big Ten Academic All-Conference honors as both a sophomore and a junior after the 2008–09 and 2009–10 Big Ten Conference regular seasons.

He entered his sophomore season as the leading returning scorer in the Big Ten. During his sophomore season, Harris was the 2008–09 Big Ten leader in free throws made, free throw percentage, and was its second leading scorer. He was among the 2008–09 conference statistical leaders in numerous statistics (points, rebounds, assists and steals). Harris began the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season by recording the second triple double in school history. At midseason he was named as a finalist for the 2010 Bob Cousy Award and a Midseason Top-30 finalist for the 2010 John Wooden Award.

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