Rare Mistake by Bilas
• If you think that Brandon Jennings spending a year in Europe will negatively impact college basketball, you are mistaken. College basketball will not notice his absence at all, and that is not sour grapes by a "college guy". College basketball did not suffer from never having had the likes of Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Dwight Howard, Louis Williams, Sebastian Telfair, Amare Stoudamire, LeBron James, Tracy McGrady, Dorrell Wright, Andrew Bynum, Kwame Brown, Olu Famutimi, Shaun Livingston, Darius Miles, Jamal Crawford, DeShawn Stevenson, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, DeSagana Diop, Ousmane Cisse, Travis Outlaw, Ndudi Ebi, Kendrick Perkins, Al Jefferson, Robert Swift, Josh Smith, J.R. Smith, Martell Webster, Gerald Green, Monta Ellis, Amir Johnson, and Andray Blatche. If college basketball thrived without those players, how could one state with a straight face that Jennings will have a major impact? That statement is laughable.
I hate to point it out, because I think Bilas is absolutely the best at college basketball analysis, but Crawford played 17 games at Michigan…
