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MaxPreps.com: Brandon Jennings
MitchMash: Diener saw Brandon Jennings show coming
by Mitch Stephens
MaxPreps.com
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I was hyperventilating over Brandon Jennings, of course, and his third-quarter cremation of an entire NBA franchise.
Brandon Jennings averaged more than 38 ppg at Oak Hill Academy.He made 12 consecutive shots and scored 29 points from every spot on the court — driving right-hand spin shots (he’s left-handed), pull-up jumpers from the foul-line, an assortment of 3-point bombs — fadeaways, catch-and-shoots and pull-ups.
The 6-foot-1 rookie point guard for the Bucks did much of the same in the fourth quarter and, despite going scoreless in the first, finished with 55 points, three off the rookie record held by the most dominant player in league history, Wilt Chamberlain. Yes, that Wilt who once averaged 50.4 points per game.
Brandon Jennings Eastern Conference Player of the Week
Congratulations to 2008 OHA graduate 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.
Yahoo! Sports: Foreign correspondence prepped Jennings
Foreign correspondence prepped Jennings
by Dan Wetzel
In his first career NBA game, Brandon Jennings of the Milwaukee Bucks scored 17 points, grabbed nine rebounds and handed out nine assists. He was within a couple plays of joining Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson as the only player to ever record a triple-double in t heir NBA debut.
Brandon Jennings nearly became the first player since Oscar Robertson to have a triple-double in his first NBA game.The next night, in leading the Bucks to victory, Jennings led the team in scoring with 24 points.
Prior to last weekend, Jennings had been known as the trailblazing young player who boldly decided to skip college to spend a year in an Italian pro league developing for the NBA.
Now he owns one of the best starts to an NBA career … ever.
Journal Sentinel Feature: Brandon Jennings, Milwaukee Bucks Rookie
The Hard Way
Diminutive point guard Jennings has taken a long and winding road to the NBA.
by Gary D’Amato of the Journal Sentinel
After signing his rookie National Basketball Association contract worth nearly $4.5 million with the Milwaukee Bucks, Brandon Jennings could have walked into any dealership showroom in the city and driven away in something that said he’d arrived.
(Read the complete story at Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.)
Oak Hill’s Most Prolific Scorer Jennings Top 10 Pick in NBA Draft
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinal Report: At the ripe young age of 19, guard Brandon Jennings has already been around the block a few times. Has he ever. The trail-blazing Jennings toured Europe playing professional basketball last season, eventually found his way to the Madison Square Garden stage Thursday for the National Basketball Association’s college draft, and now has Milwaukee, and possibly Green Bay, written in as the next stops on his itinerary. Jennings, a 6-foot-1 guard from Compton, Calif., and a former national high school player of the year, was selected by the Milwaukee Bucks with the 10th overall pick in the draft and immediately becomes one of the major building blocks on which coach Scott Skiles and general manager John Hammond hope to construct a team that will win in the NBA on a consistent basis. Read the Full Story Online.
Warriors Take Down Charlotte Christian, Montrose Awaits
After a week off, the Warriors prepped for a big week that tops off this Friday with a rematch against Montrose Christian on Friday. Playing at the Charlotte Bobcats Arena on Saturday, the Warriors topped Charlotte Christian 76-66. (Download the Box Score – PDF)
Lamb scored 23, Jones 17, Gallon had 12 points and Howard 11. The Warriors jumped out to an 11-point lead after the first quarter, and the teams played almost dead even the rest of the way.
Tickets for Friday night’s matchup against Montrose Christian (#6 USA Today) at Georgetown Prep in Bethesda, MD are available online. The game at 7pm ET will also air on ESPN2.
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.”
The Education of Brandon Jennings – Yahoo! Sports Feature
Yahoo! Sports –Having celebrated his 19th birthday with his mother and younger brother at a restaurant in Rome, basketball’s most important young player climbed inside a Volvo wagon for the drive home and started talking about the biggest rookie burden since Kevin Garnett. Life isn’t so different in Italy, Brandon Jennings said with a laugh [...]
Brandon Jennings to Play Overseas in Preparation for NBA
July 10, 2008 — Oak Hill Academy and National Player of the Year, Brandon Jennings, and his family have decided to pursue several professional opportunities for next year.
Over the course of the last two months I have consulted a number of people in basketball before coming to this decision.” Jennings said. “I would like to thank the University of Arizona for their interest and support throughout this process.”
Jennings Named Naismith National High School Basketball Player of the Year
Brandon Jennings, of Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., and Elena Delle Donne, of Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Del. have been named the 2008 Naismith National High School Basketball Players of the Year, the Atlanta Tipoff Club announced today. Bob Hurley (St. Anthony High School, Jersey City, NJ) and Brian Harrigan [...]
More Honors for Warriors’ Brandon Jennings
May 1, 2008 — The postseason honors for Brandon Jennings keep coming. Brandon was named the 2008 EA Sports Player of the Year. That announcement follows Brandon becoming Oak Hill’s first Player of the Year in Parade Magazine. MaxPreps also named him as their Player of the Year
ESPN The Magazine has a new feature on [...]
Jennings Named McDonald’s All American, Hits for School Record 63 Points in Bonner Game
Congrats to Brandon Jennings for being the 23rd Oak Hill Warrior to be named a McDonald’s All American. Brandon will represent Oak Hill at the 31st McDonald’s AA game on Wed., March 26th at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee, WI.
The game will be televised live at 9:30pm EST on ESPN. The same day as the [...]
