Good for this guy. No one else in his situation would turn it down. He'll be making big bucks while guys his age are working part time at pizza hut after school making enough to put gas in their car and go to the movies on friday night
haha So true. It's good that this kid's parents are giving him to chance to leave school to go overseas to develop his talent. Hopefully the kid comes back to shove that glorified piece of toilet paper called a HSD down the naysayers mouth's.Good for this guy. No one else in his situation would turn it down. He'll be making big bucks while guys his age are working part time at pizza hut after school making enough to put gas in their car and go to the movies on friday night
lol son where'd you find that statistic?
HS is bull anyhow... i know a lot of dumb mother ers who got their diplomas and haven't done since and can't spell for or do math. HS is bull plain and simple. You really only get a true education when you go to college and even then your beginning classes are HS bull equivalent.
this kid going to europe is going to grow so much more as an individual rather then him staying for his senior yr of HS. i say go to college part time during the off season and all's good.
ps: the only thing HS taught me was how to make great drug connects and that was it. i love how you all act as if our school system here in the US is top notch which is far from the truth.
He is have some offers from Spain. he would be allow to play 2 years in second division of Spain (level below ACB) and even with the junior team of the club if he need more play time and they will stay pay him good salary.
So he will get top basketball coaching and training that is as good or better than NCAA for 2 years plus he will get paid more then college graduate will make in US. Of course this is good move.
Seriously let the kid go. This really is a no-brainer
I hope more kids start doing what this guy and Brandon Jennings did. The one year rule ruined college basketball. No upsets anymore. The last year that rule wasn't in place, we saw George Mason make the final four. The three years since, the final four has been made up of eight 1 seeds, three 2 seeds, and one 3 seed. The national championship game has had five 1 seeds and one 2 seed, and since the rule all the national champions have been 1 seeds.
I can't wait till March Madness will be fun again and won't be a "Who's lucky enough to have an NBA player on their team" contest.
if rubio could play in first division, i dont see any reason why Tyler cant, he is projected to be 1st pick of 2011.
I believe Rubio became pro at age 14, but didn't play first division until 2 or 3 years later. Even as talented as Tyler might be, he would not get much playing time at first division team in a top tier european league
Rubio = poor man's Jose Calderon.
I don't know why any team would use a top 10 pick on a European player after seeing how much it has bitten other teams in the ass.
Rubio was like 2 points per game and 1 assist per game player even at age 16 I think.
rubio is a passfirst point guard. Jeremy Tyler is a bigger blake griffin. jeremy Tyler should play on a division 1 team that's in euroleague. He is a beast.
Is this a joke? No 17 age player will be on a Euroleague team unless he want to ride bench all season long.
He might be a beast, but Euroleague is not a cupcake league.
I've heard worse, didn't some american kid drop out of High School to play guitar hero?
Love this move. It sounds like both the dad and kid are being smart and reasonable about this. It's hard to say just from quotes in an article, but they are at least saying the right things.
The kid sounds like he's a lock to play professional ball. Even if it's not the NBA, the kid has a shot of spending the next 15 years earning a living playing ball, why not maximize his potential. Why not go play for a professional team with professional coaches and actually attempt to LEARN the game, as opposed to going through the motions of an academic career and all of the rules of the NCAA.
If this kid has the right at ude, he will arrive at the NBA draft much better prepared for the rest of his life this way than if he continued along the narrow minded path of US amateur athletics.
Really? So a projected #1 draft pick in the NBA would ride the bench in Euroleague? I suppose Derrick Rose wouldn't get any playing time over there, either, huh?
If the kid wants to do it and his family supports it, who the are any of us to try and knock the kid down for trying to chase success?
Good luck to him.
Some of these one-and-done guys play upwards of 40 games for their school during their one year on campus. I don't care that much about the NBA rule against prep-to-pros, but it would be nice for more of these kids - especially the ones that bounce from high school to high school - to embrace Europe as an option. Some incoming freshmen have a degree and a career path picked out that includes internships, specific course/instructor selection, and postgraduate work. If a guy is just enrolled to ball and waste time for a semester - and a scholarship - until the League can draft him, he should pack his bags and make some money overseas, and leave college for the guys that want to be there. That's his career path and he should embark on it immediately.
I think all it's going to take is some stud prep player with personality to head over, and blog/facebook/twitter about how great life is as a Euroleague player until this becomes a common decision. And frankly, I'm surprised that it's taken so long for one of these guys to leave as a high school junior, much as I was surprised about Jennings last year.
You are a ing idiot.
Classy. Way to substantiate your comments with intelligently thought out discourse.
I just don't like how much it's ed up college ball. College basketball used to be about teams, ever since that stupid rule it's become more and more like the NBA where individual players get more attention than teams.
You're calling someone else an idiot when you're the one saying a future #1 overall pick won't get playing time in a league where Loren Woods averages 20 points per game.......you're the idiot.
Woods
2007-08 8.0 PPG
http://www.euroleague.net/compe io...asoncode=E2007
2008-09 12.3 PPG (on team that win 2 games ALL YEAR)
http://www.euroleague.net/compe io...ayer?pcode=TFG
I guess we can now say that Bonner averages 20 in NBA. Since you just make up crap.
Also he is 16-17 year old. He would not get play time in Euroleague you stupid fool.
Holy . You are re ed.
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