Jay Scrubb on signing with Boston, cracking the rotation, and more

Photo by David Dow/NBAE via Getty ImagesJay Scrubb’s journey to the NBA wasn’t linear. There was no NCAA basketball. No McDonald’s All-American team selections. No high school rankings to put him on the national radar. All Scrubb had was a dream and an insatiable work ethic.

The list of players who have traveled the JUCO to NBA route is short. To further complicate things, most players on that list used their time at the JUCO level to earn a roster spot with a Division I school. Not Scrubb. Instead, the free-scoring guard continued to trust in his work ethic and the product he was putting on the court, hoping that an NBA team would take notice.

In 2020, Scrubb’s hard work paid off. After…