Making the Case for Jeremy Tyler

The current rules of the NBA prohibit a player from jumping from high school to the NBA.  And that seems to indicate that American players must spend at least one year creating revenues for NCAA school (a level of revenue that will exceed the value of one year of college education).  Jeremy Tyler, though, has taken a different path.  Not only did he not go to college, he also skipped out on his senior year of high school.  Instead of going to class, Tyler first went to play professional basketball in Israel.  When that didn’t work out, Tyler spent this past year playing professionally in Japan. Tyler’s odyssey was discussed last April in the New York Times. Missing from this story, though, was a review of the statistics Tyler posted while playing in Japan.  For this analysis, you need to see a discussion offered by Andrew Lowman.  My sense, though, is that many people missed this analysis.  So for readers of this forum, here is Lowman’s review of Tyler’s play in Japan. Seven mont...