UNION, N.J. — Brandon Jennings could be done with the NCAA before even spending one year on campus.
A 6-foot-2 point guard out of Oak Hill (Va.) Academy and the top-ranked prep player in America according to ESPN, Jennings is considering spending one year in Europe instead of playing next year at Arizona, the school to [...]

Steve Nash held his annual Nike Skills Academy for college and prep point guards last week at Kean University and I took the opportunity to ask the two-time NBA MVP his thoughts on new Knicks head coach Mike D’Antoni and current point guard Stephon Marbury.
“I think Mike’s going to be great for New York,” said Nash, [...]

Several weeks after reports surfaced that Whie Plains senior shooting guard Sean Kilpatrick had committed to St. John’s, he is interested in Providence.
Gerard Jones, the older brother of West Virginia commit Kevin Jones and an advisor to Kilpatrick, said Kilpatrick is interested in visiting Providence, although he cannot take an unofficial visit in JUly as per [...]

As Kevin Jones sat inside the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden for the NBA Draft last Thursday, it must have been hard for him to avoid imagining David Stern one day call his name.
“I’m not thinking about that right now. I’m just thinking about college first,” said Jones, a 6-foot-8 forward out of Mount [...]

Dexter Strickland had looked forward to a busy summer schedule in which he would try out for the U.S. U18 team that will head to Formosa, Argentina next month.
But now Strickland, a 6-foot-3 rising senior from St. Patrick of Elizabeth who committed to North Carolina, will miss the trials with a pulled hamstring.
“I have to [...]

The recent decision by former St. Raymond’s standout Omari Lawrence  to transfer to South Kent, a prep school in Connecticut, has culminated a mass exodus of talent from the New York Catholic League.
Lawrence will join his former St. Ray’s teammate and fellow rising senior Kevin Parrom at South Kent. Ashton Pankey and Devon Collier left Archbishop [...]

Donald Williams, a 6-foot-5, 210-pound senior guard at Temple Hills (Md.) Progressive Christian Academy who was being courted by St. John’s and Marquette, is now no longer involved with either school, according to his AAU coach, Tony Tate.
“He didn’t sign with St. John’s,” Tate said. “They really wanted him. Marquette never followed through on the [...]

Memphis coach John Calipari confirmed to me during Thursday’s NBA Draft that Paterson, N.J. native Hashim “Big City” Bailey would transfer to UMass.
Derek Kellogg, a former Calipari assistant, is the new head coach at UMass.
The 6-foot-10, 270-pound Bailey has played in just nine games in two years, averaging 1.1 points and 0.9 rebounds He has two blocked [...]

Defending NCAA champion Kansas may have lost five players in Thursday’s NBA Draft, but the Jayhawks are busy reloading for the future. And they’re coming hard at the New York metropolitan area.
Kansas is recruiting four super-talented wing players from the Class of 2009, including Lance Stephenson of Brooklyn Lincoln (who is now also considering Europe [...]

Keon Lawrence, a former All-New Jersey guard from Weequahic High, is leaving Missouri and considering several Big East schools near home.
The 6-foot-2, 190-pound Lawrence led the Tigers with 29.2 minutes played last season as a sophomore, appearing in all 32 contests, including 20 starts. He finished as the team’s third-leading scorer with 11 points per game [...]