Brandon Jennings to sign with a European Team

[ShowTime LA]

Arizona signee Brandon Jennings has decided to make an unprecedented move to forgo playing in college and instead pursue a professional career in Europe next season before likely entering the 2009 NBA draft, Jenning's attorney, Jeff Valle, told ESPN.com on Tuesday night.

"Over the course of the last two months I have consulted a number of people in basketball before coming to this decision," Jennings said in a statement released through Valle. "I would like to thank the University of Arizona for their interest and support through this process."

Jennings, a Los Angeles native who played his final two high school seasons at Oak Hill Academy in Mouth of Wilson, Va., was rated as the nation's top point guard in the class of 2008, according to ESPN.com.

Valle said Jennings will not even wait for his third standardized test result to see if he got a qualifying score after his second test was questioned by the NCAA. The results from the third test are due later this week.

"That's a moot point now," Valle said. "He's not going to the University of Arizona. Brandon plans on going to Europe."

Valle said a number of European teams have expressed an interest in signing Jennings for next season. Valle declined to say which teams and in which countries.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=3479195

[RandomBalla55]

I thought his scores were supposed to come?

July 5th I think they were mailed out..

[statman32]

Have fun sitting the bench in Europe getting no pub during the season instead of playing for Point Guard U and being all over ESPN.

[Lebron23]

I hope he will not end up as the next Roro Ukic.

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Finally something funny that's not clipper related.

[statman32]

I hope he will not end up as the next Roro Ukic.

I hope he ends up playing in Europe for the next 15 years.

[baseketball4life]

dudes retarded


thats all i have to say

[jbot]

eh, i'm probably the only one that wishes him luck. would he have been better off attending a smaller school or going pro overseas?

[statman32]

eh, i'm probably the only one that wishes him luck. would he have been better off attending a smaller school or going pro overseas?

Test results werent back yet. He would have been able to go to UofA if he passed where he would have got tons of pub.

[Valliant13]

So instead of playing for free, and having to do a year of collage that he has no interest in...he decided to earn a ton of money and play against a higher level of competition: what is wrong with that? I would be very surprised a this didn't become a trend. Where is the benefit of of one year of being a pretend student, and making a school millions of dollars that you never see a dime of?

Statman: Why are upset about where some highschool kid decides to play ball? It's his life...why give him grief about making a choice that doesn't affect anyone else?

[bdreason]

Smart move as long as he doesn't sell his rights for more than 1 year.

[Burgz]

what other choice is there for him, if test results too low, there is absolutely no way he can play for a D1 school w/o bending the rules. The guy wants to play, so let him play.

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So instead of playing for free, and having to do a year of collage that he has no interest in...he decided to earn a ton of money and play against a higher level of competition: what is wrong with that? I would be very surprised a this didn't become a trend. Where is the benefit of of one year of being a pretend student, and making a school millions of dollars that you never see a dime of?

Statman: Why are upset about where some highschool kid decides to play ball? It's his life...why give him grief about making a choice that doesn't affect anyone else?

I could see that happening.

[baseketball4life]

Hallelujah. Finally a smart player. Would rather see a player test himself overseas, earn some money, earn experience, and then make it big in the NBA.

Won't be long before the NCAA is just scrubs that couldn't make it professionally.

LMAO

this will never happen... do you get an education in europe? didn't think so

[Silverbullit]

LMAO

this will never happen... do you get an education in europe? didn't think so

Why not?