Brad Simpson, who has been the boys’ basketball coach at Wakefield Memorial High School in a Boston suburb for decades, first met Nets guard Bruce Brown at an informal summer workout before Brown entered eighth grade.
“He looks awful, so spindly. His legs are like pipe cleaners,” Simpson recalled. But then Brown started shooting baskets to warm up. “The third time through, he throws it down like a monster jam. I almost fell out of the bleachers.”
Selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round, with the 42nd overall pick, of the 2018 N.