Bolingbrook's Brady Pettigrew emerges as a national star, weighs college options

Brady Pettigrew’s social media accounts are full of famous and familiar basketball faces.Duke coach Jon Scheyer, local legend Derrick Rose and Arkansas coach John Calipari all recently visited Pettigrew in Bolingbrook’s gym. There are clips of Pettigrew playing against current NBA player Paolo Banchero and photographs of a recent official visit to North Carolina.Over the offseason, Pettigrew emerged as a consensus five-star recruit and a top 10 player in the national class of 2028. He’s the first local player to reach those heights since Jahlil Okafor and Cliff Alexander in 2014.At this point, Pettigrew can play at any college he chooses. The 6-3 guard has more than 35 scholarship offers, including Duke and North Carolina.The major question surrounding Pettigrew now isn’t where he will head to college, but when. Pettigrew is good enough to skip his senior year, head to college, and get a major payday one year ahead of schedule.That strategy worked out well for Joliet native Jeremiah Fe