Brandon Jennings to be a Blazer!

Interesting article on Jennings and playing in Europe.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_y...YF?slug=aw-jennings123108&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

The part about him being a Blazer:

Gramps...

 

Can you say Bassy part II?

 

Bayless > Jennings.

 

Is anyone... !?

 

I think the "trailblazer" part means that he's the first highly recruited college freshman to chose Europe over the NCAA.

 

Really?

 

Right over... Your... Head.

Twice.

 

Oh is that what it meant?

 

yeah, I think that's what it meant from the "trailblazer" part. He was one of the best players coming out of Oak Hill Academy (High School). And that's saying alot considering the players that have come from that program. The year in Europe will do him a world of good since it will get him more structured to a "team" type of play...and with his court vision and passing ability he will come into next years draft as a surefire lottery, possibly a top 10 pick.

Just to give some people an idea of the seriousness of the school he played for and thier tradition of churning out top NBA talent, I've listed the players that have done well in the NBA (and a couple in College right now) keep in mind all these players are coming out of this one school....insane!!!

Josh Smith
Jerry Stackhouse
Carmelo Anthony
Stephen Jackson
Rajon Rando
DeSagana Diop
Jeff McInnis
Ron Mercer
Marcus Williams
Steve Blake

and in college: Ty Lawson & Eric Devendorf


That's a pretty impressive Prep School to say the least.

 

He was kinda forced to sign over in Europe. He signed his letter of intent with Arizona...but did meet the acedemic requirements...so it only made sense that if he was ineligible to play in college for his year between the pros, he might as well play overseas and make money while progressing as a team player. If he shows serious improvement when draft time comes around...I can see more players doing this. More likely the one who need the money to help support family and what not...this is a very decent option to playing in college...who pretty much pimps the players for TV deals brings in butt-loads of cash for the schools...lol...just playing!!! But it does seem unfair when a player does get caught excepting money....they attempt to make them out like thier the scum and a big disgrace to the game of basketball. I can see if the player was getting paid off just to come and play at a school...but....I mean what was so bad when OJ Mayo received game tickets from Carmelo? seriously? All that was, was a friend hooking a friend up to see a game...

 

Rod Strickland (news to me), Corey Alexander, and William Avery also went there, and Kevin Garnett made multiple visits before deciding against it.

 

I can't believe i missed Rod Strickland...oops....but I didn't want to put Corey Alexander ad William Avery since they did absolutly zero in the NBA....lol

And I thought I heard about KG visiting, but I couldn't find a link...

 

I started there for 2 years dogg!

 

By the standards of most schools, just getting someone to the NBA is a major accomplishment!

 

oh, don't get me wrong...that is a great accomplishment in it's own right. it's just after listing the names I went on to say...contributers in the NBA (don't know if you read that post...). And since Alexander and Avery didn't do anthing once they got in...I didn't list them.....if I said in my post "all these players went on to the NBA"...well that would be different, but I didn't....so I hope that clears things up a lil bit

 

If you ain't just playing, man...that's frickin' tight as hell dawg. No joke, B...that is impressive!

 

for the jv wrestling team, master of greco roman. your upper body is chisled out of rock hard queso.

 

Sounds good:

He should be contractually required to go back to the flat top, though.

If Portland were interested, I think he would be much more obtainable than Rubio, because the value of picks drops precipitously outside of the top 2, especially if a team like Washington or the Clippers is picking #3.