ESPN the Magazine Profiles Brandon Jennings’ Overseas Adventure

ESPN the Magazine profiles Oak Hill alum Brandon Jennings in the current issue under the headline “Exchange Student: The first American to go prep to pro by way of Europe, Brandon Jennings is getting quite an education overseas.”

Among the highlights:

The American prep basketball legend grew up near LA, some 6,000 miles away, where hoops skills bring girls, hype and carte blanche. He played at vaunted Oak Hill Academy, where training camp means five-on-five full-court for hours, not endless drills. Here mornings are spent lifting weights, sprinting on soccer fields or running through the rocky terrain of nearby woods. Afternoons are spent resting on the minibeds in the minirooms of the minihotel. Evenings? Time to run through drill after drill and get yelled at—again.

“Playing in Europe with grown men who are better than him is going to help him mature as a player,” says an NBA GM who is being kept apprised about Jennings by overseas scouts. “And I can tell you this already: He’s a definite lottery pick in ‘09.”

Read the full story on ESPN.com here.