Jamie Shaw Article on Jazz Gardner

A little birdy told me UCLA is in really good position with Jazz Gardner, definitely the favorite, but it's a long race and a lot can change over the next 2 years.

? FWIW.

Me: "Why does Jelani Gardner wants his son to go to UCLA so badly?"

Little Birdy: "He does. His son wants to go there. You want another reason? Because that was always his dream school."

Me: "Why didn't Jelani Gardner go to UCLA if that was his dream school?"

Little Birdy: "His parents needed the money! He doesn't."

Too true. Todd Bozeman and all that jazz.

Jelani Gardner transferred from Cal to Pepperdine.

Jazz Gardner is taking an unofficial visit to Pepperdine as well as UCLA in August. Considering that Kessler Edwards is in the NBA Draft and Johnny Juzang isn't, maybe Jazz should go to Pepperdine.

Ken Bone might not have worked out as a head coach at WSU, but he can coach big men. No doubt about that.

And Curtis Allen and Gerald Brown know how to teach guards and skills.

And Lo Romar has a pretty good track record as a head coach and before that as an assistant at UCLA on a NC team...

If you're 6-11 and you want to be an F or a G, go to a school where they can teach you to be the best that you can be.

Jelani had a bad kidney. He played professionally in Europe for 7 years before he got a kidney transplant from, I think, his Mom. He continued to play professionally in Europe until about 3 years ago.

Here's a bonus trivia question and mh will send you 50% of his stock in Boeing if you get the right answer: What other big man from Hacienda Heights Los Altos broke Bruin hearts many years ago when he chose an ACC team instead?