I love this move.

Jeremy Tyler is a high school senior to be and one of the top basketball players in the country. He’s decided to take his game overseas before coming back to play in the NBA and I LOVE IT. If the NBA is going to disallow these guys to play right out of high school then these kids are going to start to make this choice. Why wouldn’t Tyler want to take the money he can get now and improve his game at the same time? He’s going to go to Europe and be playing all day long getting better and he doesn’t have to focus on school. If we are honest then we have to realize that he wouldn’t be going to college to get an education anyway, he’d be going so he could kill some time before the draft. It’s not for everyone, but it is for Jeremy Tyler.

What are the cons? He risks losing some fans of course. He risks being a bust and he gives up his collegiate eligibility. He is now the poster child for good high school kids who want to get paid today and not wait. Isn’t this what they do in Europe already? Ricky Rubio has been playing professionally since he was 16 years old because that’s what he wants to do with his life and he’s blessed enough to do that. How is Jeremy Tyler any different? He’s a very good player who wants to get better and do that while getting paid instead of going to college to do that and I can’t find fault. At the best he goes to Europe and gets better and in 2 years is taken by an NBA team high in the draft. At worst, he bombs, gets paid and comes back with his tail between his legs being known as the big kid who didn’t want to play in college so he went overseas.

Kids will follow his example either way and I simply can’t find fault in wanting to be the first one to do this.

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