Brandon Jennings Eastern Conference Player of the Week
Brandon Jennings Named NBA’s Eastern Conference Player of the Week
November 16, 2009 – bucks.com
Congratulations to 2008 OHA graduate Brandon Jennings!
Milwaukee Bucks Rookie Brandon Jennings
The National Basketball Association announced today that Bucks guard Brandon Jennings was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for the games played November 9 through November 15.
Jennings averaged 43.5 points, 7.0 assists and 4.5 rebounds in 39.5 minutes per game in helping the Bucks to a 2-0 record. He shot 60.4 percent from the field, 90.0 percent from three point range and 87.5 percent from the line in two contests. The Bucks defeated the Denver Nuggets (currently 7-3) 108-102 on November 11 and came back from a first half deficit to beat the Golden State Warriors 129-125 on Saturday.
Jennings became the third player in franchise history (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Redd) to record 50-plus points as he tallied 55 points in the victory over Golden State, breaking the team’s rookie scoring record previously held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (51, February 21, 1970) and it was the most scored by an NBA rookie since Earl Monroe had 56 in 1968. The 55 points were also just two shy of the franchise’s high-scoring game of 57, set by Michael Redd on November 11, 2006.
Saturday’s performance also marked Jennings becoming the youngest player in NBA history to score 50-plus points as he was 20 years and 52 days old and LeBron James was 20 years and 80 days old when he accomplished it on March 20, 2005. Jennings’ 45 second-half points were the most in a half since Kobe Bryant tallied 55 on January 22, 2006. By recording 30-plus points in consecutive games (he had 32 against Denver), Jennings is the first Bucks rookie since Glenn Robinson in 1995 to have back-to-back 30-plus point nights.
In the Bucks win over Denver, Jennings had 32 points, nine assists and four rebounds. He tallied 14 of those points in the final quarter, including going 2-2 from three point range and knocking down all six of his free throw attempts in the final 21 seconds to seal the game. On Saturday, he scored 29 points in the third quarter (12-13 field goals) and 16 in the fourth quarter. With the team down 109-110 with 3:39 left in the game, Jennings scored 12 of the team’s final 20 points, including two three-pointers and two free throws to put the team up four with 10 seconds to play.
Jennings is the team’s first Bucks player since Michael Redd (December 25, 2006 through January 1, 2007) to be named player of the week.
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