Sunday, November 08, 2009

Tyler, Remember: The Ball Bounces

There's this 18-year old basketball player over at Haifa Maccabi, an American straight out of highschool. His story in a nutshell:-

[Jeremy] 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.


Wow.

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.


Wow.

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.


WOW!

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