Lesson One for Young Washington Wizards—Don't Be Like Brandon Jennings

The Washington Wizards are a young team; they are infatuated with social networking, self-promotion , and living a life clean enough for families to stomach as they stand in the ticket line, yet daring enough to attract attention. In other words, they are everything Brandon Jennings is not. Brandon Jennings is talented and intelligent; both are characteristics that he is alarmingly comfortable with, even in the hot spotlight of NBA and overseas fame. Unfortunately, he hasn’t yet developed the smarts to shut his mouth now that he knows millions of people are listening, as was the case when he decided to allow personal remarks to be broadcast to the world via a Joe Budden webcast. From The Baseline : On what happened on draft night … Budden: Who was hatin’ on you? Jennings: Jay Bilas. Budden: What happened? You ran in the draft late or some dumb s*** like a loser? Jennings: No, I was at the hotel. This is what happened right. My agent is like ... (link)