LiAngelo Ball Leaves UCLA

[bksballer89]

Is it bad that I hope all of his kids becomes failures?

 

[tducey]

IMO Lavar Ball is doing more harm than good for his kids. Got to wonder when they tell him enough is enough.

 

[Skerpokes]

If I was a legitimate D-1 school I would not recruit any of his remaining 2 kids. No f'ing way.

 

[douggie]

Report: LiAngelo, LaMelo Ball won't play college basketball after signing with agent

If they play overseas I would discourage theft as part of their lifestyle.

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

I have a feeling he enrolls at a mid major eventually if he wants to continue his basketball career. He was never UCLA good. Maybe a lower tier power 5 team, but I have a hard time seeing big programs giving him a chance.

Pepperdine?

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

If I was a legitimate D-1 school or Nebraska, I would not recruit any of his remaining 2 kids. No f'ing way.

*Corrected

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

Report: LiAngelo, LaMelo Ball won't play college basketball after signing with agent

If they play overseas I would discourage theft as part of their lifestyle.

Two non-negotiables:
1) No shop lifting
2) Change these gay assed names

 

[PEOPLESCHICKEN]

If LaVar can make LiAngelo better than a D-1 program can, then sign my 5-10 ass up for the LaVar Ball school of shooty hoops

The bright side is he has a good shot at being the valedictorian for the school of self-promotional studies

 

[Hitman Hart]

Report: LiAngelo, LaMelo Ball won't play college basketball after signing with agent

If they play overseas I would discourage theft as part of their lifestyle.

lmao, Lavar Ball is such a clown

 

[Hitman Hart]

 

[iowajerms]

This reminds me of someone about a decade ago.

Basketball Prospect Leaving High School to Play in Europe - NYTimes.com

SAN DIEGO — Jeremy Tyler, a 6-foot-11 high school junior whom some consider the best American big man since Greg Oden, says he will be taking a new path to the N.B.A. He has left San Diego High School and said this week that he would skip his senior year to play professionally in Europe.

Tyler, 17, would become the first United States-born player to leave high school early to play professionally overseas. He is expected to return in two years, when he is projected to be a top pick, if not the No. 1 pick, in the 2011 N.B.A. draft.

Tyler, who had orally committed to play for Rick Pitino at Louisville, has yet to sign with an agent or a professional team. His likely destination is Spain, though teams from other European leagues have shown interest. A spokesman for Louisville said the university could not comment about Tyler.

“Nowadays people look to college for more off-the-court stuff versus being in the gym and getting better,” Tyler said. “If you’re really focused on getting better, you go play pro somewhere. Pro guys will get you way better than playing against college guys.”

 

[iowajerms]

This reminds me of someone about a decade ago.

Basketball Prospect Leaving High School to Play in Europe - NYTimes.com

SAN DIEGO — Jeremy Tyler, a 6-foot-11 high school junior whom some consider the best American big man since Greg Oden, says he will be taking a new path to the N.B.A. He has left San Diego High School and said this week that he would skip his senior year to play professionally in Europe.

Tyler, 17, would become the first United States-born player to leave high school early to play professionally overseas. He is expected to return in two years, when he is projected to be a top pick, if not the No. 1 pick, in the 2011 N.B.A. draft.

Tyler, who had orally committed to play for Rick Pitino at Louisville, has yet to sign with an agent or a professional team. His likely destination is Spain, though teams from other European leagues have shown interest. A spokesman for Louisville said the university could not comment about Tyler.

“Nowadays people look to college for more off-the-court stuff versus being in the gym and getting better,” Tyler said. “If you’re really focused on getting better, you go play pro somewhere. Pro guys will get you way better than playing against college guys.”

Not even a year later

Young, Talented and Unhappy Playing Basketball Overseas

HAIFA, Israel — Jeremy Tyler came to this scenic city overlooking the Mediterranean as a trailblazer. As the first American basketball player to skip his senior year of high school to play professionally overseas, Tyler signed a $140,000 deal to play for Maccabi Haifa this year. The grand plan revolves around his being a top pick, if not the top pick, in the 2011 N.B.A. draft.

“My mission is to shake David Stern’s hand,” he said.

But after nearly three months of professional basketball in Israel’s top division, Tyler is at a crossroads. Caught in a clash of cultures, distractions and agendas, he appears to be worlds away from a draft-night handshake with Stern, the N.B.A. commissioner.

His coach calls him lazy and out of shape. The team captain says he is soft. His teammates say he needs to learn to shut up and show up on time. He has no friends on the team. In extensive interviews with Tyler, his teammates, coaches, his father and advisers, the consensus is that he is so naïve and immature that he has no idea how naïve and immature he is. So enamored with his vast potential, Tyler has not developed the work ethic necessary to tap it.

“The question is whether he’ll take responsibility of his career,” Haifa Coach Avi Ashkenazi said. “If he thinks he’s going to be in the N.B.A. because his name is Jeremy Tyler and he was a very good high school player, he will not be.”

It is too early to declare Tyler a bust, but it is safe to say that he has transformed from a can’t-miss prospect into a project.

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Tyler, 18, said he was still acclimating to a new culture and a more precise style of basketball. The plan for Tyler’s older brother to move here never materialized.

To help him adjust, the Wasserman Media Group sent one of Tyler’s agents, Makhtar Ndiaye, to Israel late last month for an extended stay to help him focus.

Tyler still talks openly about retiring with $200 million in the bank after a 15-year N.B.A. career. He also talks about modeling, the documentary being made about him, and how he and his girlfriend, Erin Wright, the daughter of the rapper Eazy-E, will grow up to be an American power couple.

But he scored just 1 point in his first two games, and his coach was baffled that a player with such great potential could arrive without basic skills like boxing out and rotating on defense. Tyler is lost, Ashkenazi said, if he cannot do what he does best: taking the ball to the rim and dunking.

Jason Rich, an American teammate who was a standout at Florida State, said, “It’s hard to say what exactly is that thing that’s going to wake him up.”

Tyler, a 6-foot-11 center considered the best American big man since Greg Oden, cried when leaving the United States. He missed his first flight because he did not know he needed his passport. He left the locker room in tears after playing just 10 minutes in his first game.

The Milwaukee Bucks rookie Brandon Jennings skipped college and had rocky moments while playing last season in Rome. But they were nothing compared with Tyler’s. Jennings has thrived in the N.B.A., in part humbled and hardened by his overseas experience.

“All he had to do was go and do what Brandon did, shut up and go learn,” said Sonny Vaccaro, an adviser to Tyler and Jennings. “He obviously isn’t doing that. He thinks that he’s Kevin Garnett.”