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This is the high school kid who decided to skip his senior year of high school to go pro overseas. I remember it sparking a decent debate here when he announced it. Quote:
Tyler quits Maccabi with 5 weeks left
JERUSALEM -- Former U.S. high school basketball star Jeremy Tyler quit Israeli team Maccabi Haifa and returned home Friday, cutting short a disappointing first pro season.
The 18-year-old Tyler arrived in Israel on a wave of publicity in August after deciding to skip his senior year at San Diego High School to gain professional experience.
Jeremy Tyler, warming up before a November game in Israel, averaged only 2.1 points and 1.9 rebounds in 10 games.
However, his time in Israel was fraught with problems, and he left five weeks before the end of the season.
"Due to personal matters, Jeremy chose to leave the team on his own will on March 18 and return home to San Diego," Maccabi Haifa owner Jeffery Rosen said in a statement. "We wish Jeremy all the best."
In the 10 games Tyler played for Haifa, the 6-foot-11 power forward averaged only 2.1 points and 1.9 rebounds in 7.6 minutes. Tyler, who reportedly earned a $140,000 salary, found it hard to adapt to the pro game and couldn't find a place in Maccabi Haifa's starting lineup.
Tyler's agent said he wasn't aware of his client's plans to leave the team.
"I'm as surprised as you are. We had no idea he was coming home," Makhtar Ndiaye of the Wasserman Media Group told ESPN's Willie Weinbaum. "I'm speechless at this point and look forward to speaking with Jeremy. A contract, a learning process -- things weren't great -- but it was part of growing up. I'm disappointed and frustrated."
Tyler's frustration was evident. Last month, he walked out on the team at halftime to protest not getting more minutes. For the last three games, he sat on the bench not wearing a uniform after being left off the Haifa squad.
Ndiaye said he spoke to Tyler earlier this week and "everything was cool."
"The kid decided on his own," Ndiaye said. "We did everything humanly possible to make it a success story for him and his family."
Sonny Vaccaro, an adviser to Tyler and his family, said his season in Europe was a positive learning experience despite how it ended.
"Nothing was lost here -- he went, it was hard, it was eight months," Vaccaro said. "It would've been beautiful, utopia, if he had played and helped his team win a championship."
Vaccaro said Brandon Jennings, now a star rookie for Milwaukee, didn't show very much in his stint overseas, either.
"Five or six NBA scouts have told me recently to just have Jeremy come home and start practicing, that the experience in Israel is not detrimental to his future," Vaccaro said.
Vaccaro, who said Tyler would sign another deal to play somewhere in August, added there's another year before Tyler would be eligible for the NBA draft, and that he didn't understand "everyone's rush to judge him."
"He's got talent and is not a bad kid," Vaccaro said.
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Perhaps his story will stop others from following in his footsteps and go to college.
"The medium for the bad news was ESPN, which figured. The network represents much of what is loud, obnoxious and empty in sports today."
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Perhaps his story will stop others from following in his footsteps and go to college.
I doubt it. For one, Vaccaro advocates it and he is influential.
Secondly, even if it flames out for him which is yet to be determined as he really just wants to get drafted, you have one success story (Jennings) and one non-success (Tyler).
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Jennings skipped one year at college to go play pro overseas though, this kid skipped his senior year of high school. He still has to wait one more year before he can be drafted to go to the NBA and since he has an agent he cant play in college either. I think this kid may have screwed himself.
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possibly. though there are still other Euro teams/leagues he can play for...
or he can sign up for And1 or another traveling team to get repetitions. he could even sign on for the D-league or CBA if it came to that (not sure on D-League's rules for age).
i completely disagree with what he did, but since Vaccaro is backing him, he still has avenues open to him.
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Playing poorly is one thing. He's a young kid, body might not be ready, foreign culture, nobody liked him on the team, or any other myriad of reasons. However, him leaving the court/arena at halftime to protest his minutes shows some bad character. If the coach says to sit, you sit. You're still "learning" on the bench and in practice. Acting like a brat proves everyone right when they said it was a bad move. And it was (well, except for the money he got).
Hope it doesn't ruin his chances at making real money in the pro's.
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The guy made 140k. Not too many Americans make that in a year. If he was good enough, he would've stayed. Seriously, if you're good, you could be a millionaire in a few years. . You know college isn't for everybody. I would rather have guys go overseas, than waste money on scholarships for guys to take golf, and african american studies.
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Unfreakingbelievable, I've seen this kid play. He is a baller but he's screwed up big time. I guarantee he would have been an NBA lottery pick in the future if he went to college or at least high school 
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The guy made 140k. Not too many Americans make that in a year. If he was good enough, he would've stayed. Seriously, if you're good, you could be a millionaire in a few years. . You know college isn't for everybody. I would rather have guys go overseas, than waste money on scholarships for guys to take golf, and african american studies.
I hear what you are saying, but the reality is athletic scholarships don't take away from other scholarship programs. Endowments and general scholarship funds support one, athletic departments fund the other. That's why you have booster programs.
If you wiped out a schools athletic program, the several hundred scholarships handed to those kids wouldn't all of a sudden be available for other students.
In reality others students would probably also feel the squeeze.
All I am saying is don't think some brainiac didn't get a scholarship because some jock did.
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Hard to knock a guy who chose to make $140k instead of half-arseing it through his senior year of high school. Kids with NBA potential who actually give 2 craps about what their english or history teacher is saying in 12th grade are about 1 in a trillion. I'd have taken the money too.
However how he handled himself after he took the money was pretty bad. Hopefully he gets the right lesson out of this and isn't Darko 2.0
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