A D.J. Wright update

D.J. Wright has certainly undergone an intriguing basketball-related course of travel.

A very highly touted small forward prospect out of Canada, he signed with Louisiana State in the fall of 2006. He was released from that LOI and later on signed with another Bayou State school, Louisiana Tech.

But academic shortcomings forced him to enter the junior college route and he enrolled at Salt Lake Community College. The connection? LT Coach Kerry Rupp and longtime SLCC Coach Norm Parrish are friends. The conventional wisdom was that Wright would head to Ruston upon earning his AA degree.

That still may be true but Wright sure leaves the possibility for a change in his eventual four-year school destination via an article in The Deseret News.

Wright flourishing in SLCC's system
John Coon
Deseret News
January 5, 2009

When D.J. Wright committed to play for LSU, he never envisioned taking a detour to Salt Lake Community College.

Failing to qualify academically changed all of that. Instead of a Tigers uniform, Wright found himself in a Bruins uniform.

Now he can't envision starting out anywhere else...

The article closes with: "..."I was already getting recruited out of high school," Wright said. "This gives me another chance to get recruited again. My recruiting starts over."

Go here for the complete article.