HIGHLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich.
Late on a Sunday afternoon, Pierre Brooks II milled around one of three courts buzzing inside Szott Fieldhouse. For Brooks, a 6-foot-5 wing, the stakes for his third scrimmage of the day are low. Of the roughly 80 players who sojourned from around the state to the fringes of Detroit, the rising junior has relatively little to gain. Unlike many of his peers, Brooks isn’t vying for the attention of staffs from a smattering of Division II and NAIA scouts littering the sidelines at Milford High School.
Since starting as a freshman for his father at Frederick Douglass Academy, Brooks has been marked as a high-major talent.