Hofstra’s Charles Jenkins Stayed at Home and Stayed Focused – NYTimes.com

[Hofstra’s Charles] Jenkins, a chiseled 6-foot-2 guard, is expected to be the first New York City public school graduate to be selected in the first round of the N.B.A. draft since Sebastian Telfair, who turned professional straight out of Lincoln in Brooklyn in 2004.

via Hofstra’s Charles Jenkins Stayed at Home and Stayed Focused – NYTimes.com.

As a person who grew up idolizing Kenny Anderson, and who’s about the same age as Stephon Marbury, it’s almost unfathomable that New York City could almost go a decade without producing a lottery caliber NBA point guard–let alone one worthy of getting drafted in the first round.  Yet, that’s precisely what was on the verge of happening until Charles Jenkins’ emergence.

Even if you’re not much for basketball, Pete Thamel’s profile on Jenkins in today’s Times is worth the read.

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