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Brad Rock: No BYU, but no regrets for Jabari Parker

SALT LAKE CITY — For someone Sports Illustrated called the best high school player since LeBron James, Jabari Parker was certainly low key on his first NBA visit to Salt Lake.

That can happen when you’ve been a star since middle school. The business of media gets old.

Last season, when the Milwaukee Bucks played in Utah, he was out with an injury.

Parker grew up in Chicago, where he gained considerable acclaim. Because he is LDS, there was widespread speculation he would play college basketball at BYU. But as every card-carrying, churchgoing Cougar fan knows, that didn’t happen.