Through two regular season games, Brandon Jennings is averaging 20.5 ppg, 6 assists, and 5.5 rebounds. He was also the first player since the dawn of the NBA’s age limit to skip college and go to Europe, instead, so his success may have implications for others. But is that what we should focus on here?
The Meaning Of Brandon Jennings
And like most revolutions, this all started organically; between his struggles to qualify academically and the cartoonish levels of upheval at Arizona, Jennings was pretty much forced to look into options overseas. Once it became clear that he could make more than a million dollars over there, not to mention millions from endorsements, the decision became clear, and Jennings signed with Pallacanestro Virtus Roma in Italy. And just like that, much the same way Kevin Garnett declared for the NBA, Jennings unwittingly became an icon for a lifestyle that he’d never sought, but that’d found him.
Regardless of how it happened, though, Jennings became a litmus test--if he fared well, others would surely follow. If he disappeared, he’d be That Guy That Went To Europe and made the biggest mistake of his life. As I wrote a few weeks ago:
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