Tyler drops agency, agent drops Tyler; spin machine on phenom continues

With a couple of months left to go in most European basketball seasons, 18-year-old Jeremy Tyler is without a team and without defined plans for his future. He’s also now minus two agents. Bernie Lee, one of Tyler’s legal representatives (and in fact the key player in negotiations with Maccabi Haifa, the club who signed the San Diego high school baller), has informed the San Diego Union-Tribune newspaper that he will no longer represent Tyler. “Jeremy has terminated Wasserman [Media Group],” explained Tyler. “I’m going to make the decision on my own to decline to work with Jeremy.” Sports agency Wasserman provided a second rep to Tyler beyond Lee’s independent representation. Lee still managed to be publicly positive about the youngster, stating that “If Jeremy does the work, his potential and the things that are going to be open to him are limitless,” while parroting the common critique of Tyler, i.e. his lack of discipline, saying that Tyler “has to make the decision to do the wo...