"the education of brandon jennings"
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 on his cell phone. They speak English. There’s Burger King and McDonald’s. The Hard Rock Café has good burgers and good music.“The only difference is that we don’t have a dryer,” Jennings said late Tuesday night. “We hang our clothes on a line.”
Back in the States, Jennings understands what they’re waiting to hear: Oh, I made such a mistake with a leap out of Compton, Calif., to Virtus Roma of the Italian League. They won’t let me play my game. I’m all alone. The Euro League is no place for an American teenager trying to do his purgatory year before entering the NBA draft......................
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***thoughts of other jokes to crack on Lil B since he cut the fade off****
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