The Bucks selected point guard Brandon Jennings with their first round draft pick, 10th overall. Jennings played in Europe last season instead of playing at Arizona. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)
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Updated: Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 10:54 PM CDT
Published : Thursday, 25 Jun 2009, 8:18 PM CDT
MILWAUKEE - The Bucks selected a point guard and a scoring guard in the NBA Draft.
Milwaukee icked prep star-turned-European pro Brandon Jennings with the 10th pick in the draft.
Jennings was the 2008 Naismith Player of the Year as a high school senior at Oak Hill Academy and committed to play at Arizona, but elected to turn pro. He joined Lottomatica Virtus Roma in a decision that could encourage other prep players to leave the U.S. for Europe.
Jennings, who is from Compton, Calif., averaged 5.5 points and 2.3 assists in 17 minutes in 27 Italian League games.
The 19-year-old Jennings worked out with the Bucks earlier this week. He decided not to attend the NBA draft because his agent, Bill Duffy, believed he might drop out of the lottery. Instead, he landed right where Milwaukee wanted him.
The Bucks picked guard Jodie Meeks in the second round ith the 41st pick, adding a sharpshooter on a team that's in need of scoring punch after trading Richard Jefferson to the San Antonio Spurs.
Meeks came out after his junior year at Kentucky. He set a single-game record with 54 points by hitting 10 3-pointers against Tennessee and averaged 23.7 points his final year with the Wildcats.
Milwaukee has had good luck in recent years in the second round, picking Michael Redd in 2000, Dan Gadzuric in 2002, Ramon Sessions in 2007 and Luc Richard Mbah a Moute last year. All four remain with the Bucks.
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