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adidas Nations Friday High School Recap: Jeter’s decision, Brown and UCLA

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LONG BEACH, California -- Action kicked off at the fifth annual adidas Nations on Friday as high school basketball players from around the world and college counselors from around America assembled for a four-day camp. With many of adidas’ talented grassroots players in attendance, the event is a great chance to evaluate high school players one more time before the summer ends.

Five-star big man Chase Jeter is planning on announcing his college decision on Monday while five-star small forward Jaylen Brown is still planning on unofficially visiting UCLA and remains undeterred by the recent flooding of Pauley Pavilion.

Chase Jeter has made a decision -- Five-star Las Vegas native Chase Jeter will be one of the first dominoes to fall among big men in the 2015 class with his Monday night announcement during the adidas Nations telecast on ESPNU. The 6-foot-10 Jeter is down to four schools -- Arizona, Duke, UCLA and UNLV -- and his commitment will mean one of the many elite big men in class is finally off the board.

Jeter told NBCSports.com that he already made his decision last week and is just waiting until Monday to announce.

“I made my decision last week,” Jeter said. “I’m 100 percent positive in my decision and I feel comfortable. I talked about it with my family. They said I should go wherever I feel most comfortable and that’s what I did.”

Whichever school lands Jeter is getting one of the younger players in the 2015 class as Jeter doesn’t turn 17 until September.

Jaylen Brown (still) wants to visit UCLA, and Kentucky -- Much has been made about five-star small forward Jaylen Brown’s scheduled unofficial visit to UCLA following adidas Nations. The Georgia native is well aware of the current condition of Pauley Pavilion after a water main broke on the UCLA campus late this week, but he still plans on seeing the campus and has found some of the Twitter exchanges surrounding his visit to be humorous.

"[The UCLA coaches] said that Pauley is down, but it’s alright. Everybody is tweeting me like it’s going to have some type of effect on my decision or something. It’s not. It’s fine,” Brown said of his scheduled UCLA visit. “Kentucky fans have been using that to their advantage. It’s hilarious. They’re like, ‘Come to Kentucky, we have clean locker rooms,’ and stuff like that, but the UCLA fans go back at them like, ‘We’ll have brand-new locker rooms by the time you get there,’ so it’s funny to see stuff like that.”

Brown told NBCSports.com that he’d like to take an official visit back to UCLA -- if things go well -- sometime in late September or early October. Kentucky will also get an unofficial visit in late August or early September with a follow-up official visit likely coming in October.

After Brown plays in the Elite 24 in August, he plans on forming a list of 10 schools and mentioned UCLA, Kentucky, Ohio State, Kansas, Duke, Florida, Texas A&M, Georgia Tech and Georgia as schools that are in the running at the current moment.

Munis Tutu has a solid opening night -- The Canadian team that faced Brown and Jeter’s USA Howard team was very much overmatched on Friday night by 2015 point guard Munis Tutu had a really good outing in doing everything he could to keep his team in the game.

The 6-foot-1 Tutu plays for prep school power LaLumiere during the school year, so he’s already well-adjusted to American basketball, but the guard had a solid showing on Friday night as he changed paces and used his good first step and speed to get in the paint and make plays. Tutu also got up on one dunk that surprised many in attendance and he generally played very hard on the evening while playing well against Arizona commit Justin Simon and UConn commit Jalen Adams.

Tutu told NBCSports.com that he has current scholarship offers from Kent State, Detroit, Binghamton, UMass, Auburn and Charleston while Michigan State and Robert Morris have expressed interest.

A spring decision is likely to follow and Tutu will try to make official visits during the school year.

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