Bucks’ Brandon Jennings takes a different path to NBA

 
By Darnell Mayberry | Published: November 27, 2009   

The skinny kid with the funky hair and freakish handle was known as trouble a year ago, an immature teenager outcast by the American college basketball system because he couldn’t cut it academically.

photo - Bucks guard Brandon Jennings went from high school to Italy to the NBA. AP photo
Bucks guard Brandon Jennings went from high school to Italy to the NBA. AP photo

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Now, Brandon Jennings is looking like a trendsetter — and the next NBA Rookie of the Year.

Jennings, Milwaukee’s wiry, 6-foot-1 point guard, has ripened into the talk of the...
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