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Bradley Basketball Lands High-Flying Chicago Guard Walter Lemon, Jr.
Release: 04/14/2010
PEORIA, Ill. - The Bradley Basketball team may be losing the runner-up in the Denny's College Slam Dunk Championship, senior guard Chris Roberts, but the Braves picked up a potential candidate for the 2014 event today when high-flying guard Walter Lemon, Jr. signed his National Letter of Intent to attend Bradley University and play basketball for the Braves next season.
A 6-foot-3 combo guard from Chicago Julian High School, Lemon was a 2010 third-team 3A all-state selection by the Illinois Basketball Coaches Association after averaging 19 points, five rebounds and five assists per game during his senior season. He also earned 2010 second-team All-Chicago Public League honors.
"We are very excited to add a highly-skilled and explosive athlete to our basketball family," said Bradley head coach Jim Les. "Walter is a tremendous young man and will fit into the Bradley environment very easily and his future is very bright, both on and off the floor."
In the feature game of Saturday's Rameybasketball.com All-Star Game at Saint Louis University, Lemon scored a game-high 21 points for his Chicago all-star squad in a matchup against Missouri prepsters. His athletic ability caught the attention of Rameybasketball.com's reporter: "Bradley University signee Walter Lemon of Chicago Julian simply took over the game with his incredible leaping ability and mid-range game. Lemon will be a star at Bradley as he delighted the fans with his quick first step, his precise stepback jumpers and his ridiculous jumping ability."
Lemon will add depth to a Bradley backcourt that will return two of the active career scoring leaders in the Missouri Valley Conference - senior guards Sam Maniscalco (1,152 career points) and Andrew Warren (1,019). In addition to the return of solid freshman contributors Dyricus Simms-Edwards and Jake Eastman, the Bradley backcourt will be bolstered further by the healthy return of senior co-captain Dodie Dunson, who missed the bulk of the 2009-10 season due to a broken arm after averaging 10.1 ppg in his first season as a Brave in 2008-09.
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