[27], On December 8, 2020, Sykes signed a one-year contract with the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). See, the basketball part, thats easy. 1:08; See All. He later joined the San Antonio Spurs on 28 September 2015. "She heard a thump, which was him falling over, but she didn't think nothing of it. If anything, Sykes being a dad was a positive. Her name is Averyelle Dream. Branden does not carry his father's last name. [26] The team later tried to sign Sykes to a contract for another month, but Sykes balked, wanting an agreement through the end of the year, and was let go by Panathinaikos at the end of October. Sykes didn't like the recruiting process -- at all. May 14 is the due date. [12] Sykes was one of eight invitees to compete in the Slam Dunk Contest at the 2015 Final Four, where he placed second. He averaged 11.2 points and 3.3 assists per game. If he's in town, have him around practice, around the locker room. "Those of us that know his story, (it's) very compelling, and this is a culmination of a lot of work and a big dream.". Sykes was selected in the second round of the 2016 Korean Basketball League by the Anyang Korea Ginseng Corporation, taking a 15-hour trip across the world that began a roughly five-year journey abroad. Buchanan III is expected to stay in the hospital until at least this coming Sunday as the scar on his heart slowly starts to heal. "I tried to hold back the tears. GB3 -- Bell's nickname for his son -- came out crying on Jan. 10, 2014, at 10 o'clock in the morning, 19 inches long and weighing six pounds. Keifer Jerail Sykes, born Dec. 30, 1993, is the last child in his family. Dayton kicked two players off its roster earlier this season after a dorm-room theft forced Archie Miller's hand. Lisa Sykes said she cried nonstop when she initially saw the video, and she cried again while sitting in a back room at Proviso East with Keifer across the hall speaking to dozens of children she had just handed pizza to. The 21-year-old Bears power forward, a second cousin to the late Hank Gathers (who died 25 years to the day of this story's publishing), married his longtime girlfriend on June 10, 2013. It's about mom just as much as dad. "My son played (NBA 2K) last night with me. He hasn't yet made his NBA dream fit inside his 6-foot frame. CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: collegebasketball | pageType: stories | At the end of the season, Sykes was named to the Horizon League All-Newcomer team. I gowith different guys. I was an All-Star, we won the regular-season (league) title and postseason title, but over there its so cutthroat, Sykes said. This arrangement was particularly worrisome and problematic recently, as the boy battled a bronchial infection. Moreover, last year on her 5th birthday, Sykes took it to his Instagram @ksykeyb28. If you would like to change your settings or withdraw consent at any time, the link to do so is in our privacy policy accessible from our home page.. ins.style.display='block';ins.style.minWidth=container.attributes.ezaw.value+'px';ins.style.width='100%';ins.style.height=container.attributes.ezah.value+'px';container.appendChild(ins);(adsbygoogle=window.adsbygoogle||[]).push({});window.ezoSTPixelAdd(slotId,'stat_source_id',44);window.ezoSTPixelAdd(slotId,'adsensetype',1);var lo=new MutationObserver(window.ezaslEvent);lo.observe(document.getElementById(slotId+'-asloaded'),{attributes:true}); In Chicago, Illinois, USA, the NBA G League player Sykes wasbornon 30 December 1993. "It's not easy, for me, but the best thing I have going on for me right now is my wife," Gathers said. "We were a stage for him to perform on. The next thing I know I hear the coaches banging on the door. Yet, Forbes in 2019 evaluated that he must be receiving a minimum NBA salary which was $900,000. But in talking to dozens of college coaches for this story, you discover that that this is a more common situation than you might think. INDIANAPOLIS Keifer Sykes knew the Pacers' season was ending. It has been less than two weeks but with all of the COVID roster shuffling and another player,. Sykes, Dawson and Gathers all have teammates who are dads. And whatever makes the mother happy, it's all about making the child happy. Follow IndyStar Pacers beat writer James Boyd on Twitter: @RomeovilleKid. The two-time Horizon League Player of the Year scores a career-best 36 against UIC, helping the Phoenix win 72-67. Buchanan's son, Terry Buchanan III, was born in November with a life-threatening condition. Sykes said, laughing. For more than a few college athletes, this is the side of life the public does not see. Gathers, who's likely to return for his senior season, said his household of three is living off $15,000 per year. Pictured below, there he is in the hospital with his girlfriend, Kylee, and his baby girl, Maddox, born three weeks ago -- smack dab in the middle of the season. The big thing with me is, I want Keifer to be a good father first. Keifer Sykes, Indiana Pacers As a small guard playing in a big city, Sykes was consistently underappreciated and underranked. [9] A loss in the Horizon League tournament, due in part to a Sykes injury, led the Phoenix to missing an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament and playing in the National Invitation Tournament. Life is too short. It's an intense situation for Ray and plenty of coaches who've become surrogate fathers in plenty of ways, this being a prominent one. From grade school to now, I really paid the cost. There are dads playing at Minnesota and UNC Wilmington. (Virginia coach) Tony Bennett went to Green Bay and was a legend there, and I think Keifer was the guy thats been next in line as the second or first greatest player to play there. Hes so well-rounded. The plan is for mother and child to pack up and go with. I want the kid around. Sykes' son represents an overlooked and under-discussed fact of life for so many college athletes: fatherhood. The first words out of his mouth are eerily foreshadowing. Following his senior year at Marshall Metro in Chicago, Sykes wasn't even considered a top-25 senior in Illinois. You could call this, The Keifer Effect, McKinnie said. He carried the Phoenix to a 75-72 victory with 21 points and a game-high 10 assists, compared to 17 points and six rebounds from Brogdon. I lost like 40 or 50 grand.". He then joined the franchises G League affiliate, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, and after shining as the teams floor general, he was called up Dec. 27, made his NBA debut against Charlotte on Dec. 29 the day before his 28th birthday scored his first NBA points against his hometown Bulls on Dec. 31 and signed a guaranteed deal for the rest of the season Jan. 7. It's free school, and I'm getting it, so let's go.". She ran back downstairs to get my brother, and he said he was trying to perform CPR and when they called the police and the police got there, they tried but they couldn't bring him back to life.". Sykes said he also shared a moment over the phone Thursday night with fellow Chicago native and former high school and collegeteammate Alfonzo McKinnie, who now playsfor the Bulls. My foundation is about mass incarcerationand gun violence. So all I wanted to do is take care of her. Phoenix coach Simon Mitchell said their plan was always to help Sykes get closer to his dream. Mitchell become familiar with Sykes through his overseas play and thought he'd played out of position at shooting guard for most of his pro career. "I was speechless," he said. The death of Sykes father painfully added to that. This June will mark a decade since Keifer Sykes father died, 10 years of carrying on without his biggest fan. [13], After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, Sykes joined the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 2015 NBA Summer League. Why do the Pacers keep losing close games? He'll want to turn to ESPN and watch a basketball game. "Just because we're in college athletics, we try to separate ourselves from the rest of the society, and we just can't do that," Ray said. It's a seven-hour drive round trip from Green Bay to Chicago. The Pacers waived third-string point guard Brad Wanamaker after his poor playand picked up Sykes mainly as an insurance guard since starting point guard Malcolm Brogdon was sidelined with a sore right Achilles and backup point guard T.J. McConnell is out due to right wrist surgery. I dont know why they wouldnt allow this story to be continued in as much detail as possible. We come from poverty. August 5, 2020. Sykes subsequently joined the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and averaged 16.3 points, 8 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game. They have a hierarchy. "He so reminds me of his dad. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Thats my dream, but I know the odds of going to the NBA, so Ill just use basketball to get as far as I can.. You can practically hear the smile through the phone as Gathers, who was wearing scrubs that didn't fit his 6-8, 275-pound frame, tells the story. "I do not want to go pro overseas," he said. Sykes, who these days has NBA scouts frequently traveling to gelid Green Bay, has previously bypassed chances to turn pro early in Europe. When was Keifer Sykes born? Sykes signed a non-guaranteed two-year deal with a team option for the second season with Indiana on Dec. 27, and the 5-11 guardfound out he'd been retained for his first seasonwhile at the team's practice facility Friday. The night before Averyelle was born, Johnson flew from Tulane back to Memphis, got in his car, immediately drove the three and a half hours to Franklin, Tennessee's Williamson Medical Center, and arrived around 3 a.m. So many missed calls from his girlfriend. Keifer, whose birth was not planned, came two days before 1994. "I don't ever want to go through that as a head coach again," Wardle said. He and KJ communicate every day; KJ can unlock an iPhone and FaceTime in no time. "I immediately fell in love with her.". Though each situation is different, if there was one player whose circumstances most resembled Sykes', it's Dawson's. My own agents telling me that I'm not gonna play in the NBA. And like Sykes, when Dawson found out he was going to be a father, he had zero interest in letting his mother know right away what he'd gotten himself into. This is a blessed, beautiful evening, and it's blessed and beautiful because it ends the way Sykes wants every game to end: with a boisterous embrace of his son, Keifer Sykes Jr. KJ, they call him. First and always, Sykes prides himself on being an awesome dad. "I had my first child when I was 20. Keifer's always been a person purely at comfort around family and only his family. Four-year starter Gary Bell Jr. hopes to have his son, Gary Bell III, in the stands come the first weekend of theNCAA Tournamentin Seattle or Portland. "I don't want to go out of the States. "He's earned it really starting in the summer just with his approach, his work ethic, his level of improvement, which has been gradual and consistent. "I wasn't trying to map out a strategy to go pro. Dawson's fellow father teammate is junior Bryn Forbes, who had a boy, Carter, born when Forbes played at Cleveland State. Even when I got here, (Boucek) just following me on Instagram and Twitter, and telling me alwaysto continue to chip away at it.". "I didn't expect much out of basketball," Sykes said. Sharp -- who's completed his Mormon mission obligations and is a 24-year-old senior on a team that in recent years has seen half its roster filled with married men -- saw little Jaycee Sharp come into the world 30 minutes after midnight on Oct. 1, 2014. Breakups, forced relationships, long-distance relationships, fractures between families, money -- these are stresses that, comparatively, make basketball seem so simple. I was at the back and people didnt believe in me, but my dad always believed in me and always affirmed me.. Keifer Sykes was a two-time Horizon League Player of the Year at Green Bay. After competing in Australia, Sykes was recruited by former Syracuse star Eric Devendorf to play for the Oranges alumni team, Boeheim's Army, in The Basketball Tournament. Everything was going so fast.". I just needed to be myself, so I went into the bathroom, but I couldnt really get back up, Sykes said. Keifer Jerail Sykes, born Dec. 30, 1993, is the last child in his family. He played college basketball for the University of WisconsinGreen Bay and his professional career has included stints at Anyang KGC of the Korean Basketball League, Ankara DSI of the Basketball Super League, S.S. Felice Scandone of the Lega Basket Serie A and South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League. Thats the Keifer Sykes Effect., Its bigger than what yall seeing and what we're seeing as far as him making it to the Pacers. Adding to the growing list of Netflix series about young, rogue FBI agents, this latest one features Gabriel Basso as a man whose specific area of work is the White House. [30][31] He was waived on April 7, 2022. The little guy is now doing better and just turned three months old. "When I got there, I was nervous, and it was kind of surreal," he said. He converted a traditional 3-point play when he drove, banked a shot and got a free throw, too. I remember being cut by the Pacers (before the season) and having to tell my son that I got cut, feeling like I just got cut in front of everybody, and I still had to do a seventh- and eighth-grade camp the next day. How much does Keifer Sykes weigh? After a game at Indiana in 2012, Dawson asked coach Tom Izzo if he could ride with his family from Bloomington to Indianapolis to escape and spend one night with his son. Sometimes he'll drive to Chicago, pick KJ up, stay for but a few minutes, and head right back to campus. Some of them terrifying, like the hell and stress Rhode Island's T.J. Buchanan has endured all season. An uncle to six and the son of a farmer, Anderson grew up bailing hay in Newark, Illinois. Where was Keifer Sykes born? He also became the only player in Horizon League history to record those same career totals. Gathers' teammate, Al Freeman? A lot people were just calling me a scorer, so when they presented me the opportunity to run the team, be a point guard and show that I could help run the organization and prove that I could win, I was excited. "I tell them I grew up just as disenfranchised and poverty-stricken as they were. And to get back and go to my high school and give my jersey, to see all of the people there the men that helped me become a man, the role models that played a role in my life and inspired me, that helped me I think today was the first day I was able to look up like, Man, its really real.. That wasn't the case with a 7-footer at Louisiana Tech named Joniah White. Keifer said that conversation will probably come in the next year or so. "I can't wait to get the list of all the players they had ranked ahead of me. I told my family, 'I think the basket is moving or something,'"Sykes said, laughing. Lisa runs an out-of-home daycare operation. Sykes was still at Wisconsin Green-Bay when the shooting happened and came to visit Harrington shortly afterward. [19], In the summer of 2016, Sykes joined the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Summer League. She lives more than 250 miles away, in Iowa, with her mother. So she was downstairs cooking, and their room was upstairs, so when she went upstairs, that's when she saw that he was passed out. [1] The film follows Sykes' path from high school to his brush with the NBA. It's Feb. 26, 2015, the night Green Bay's Keifer Sykes plays his final game in his hometown area, in front of a band of family and friends. "At this point, she's three months pregnant," Keifer said. One team has a player with two children born from two women three months apart. She took in five kids, taking care of my kids when I told her I wanted to play college basketball. And life off the court has been pock-marked with losses and tragedies tied to the gun violence that has riddled the streets of Chicago for a century. KJ crowned around dinnertime on Aug. 3, 2010, at Mount Sinai Medical Center. I told him, 'Boost me up to 99 right now, and put me against Steph Curry! Sykes was waived by the Pacers on Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Athletic reports. Its a remarkable story, and his story obviously goes back way before the NBA with his rise through Chicago.. Keifer Sykes: Waived by Indiana. Sharp and his wife, Jordan, planned the pregnancy. One afternoon Keifer was on the green line, headed back home, when he got a call. When I first committed, I didn't know where basketball would take me. "(My mom) put it together after the fact," Sykes said. I met with director Nick Budabin and star Keifer Sykes, of the new documentary Chi-Town (which I also reviewed), on Monday, March 12, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival.The film, which follows Sykes from the end of his high-school basketball career through the end of college, and just beyond, is like a sequel, of sorts, to the great Steve James' 1994 Hoop Dreams. Every year he's gotten better at balancing and understanding that. The basket pushes him past the 2,000-point total for his career, keeping him on pace to be one of the five most prolific scorers in Horizon League history and making him the first player ever in that conference score at least 2,000 points, grab 400 rebounds and dish 400 assists. They say, 'You don't know what it's like to be on food stamps,' and I say, 'I've been through it.'". 2023 www.indystar.com. [2] He starred at John Marshall Metropolitan High School in Chicago, where he was named second team All-Chicago Public High School League by the Chicago Sun-Times. The two helped Marshall finish third in the Class 3A Illinois high school boys basketball state tournament in 2010, and 12 years later they were on opposing sides of an NBA game for the first time when Sykes and the Pacers hosted McKinnie and their hometown Bulls on Feb 4. "Little KJ is very outspoken, loud, and a joy to be around," Lisa Sykes said. I was sleeping, Sykes said. "I was pacing in the waiting room. Home. "He earned it," Pacers coach Rick Carlisle said of Sykes' contract being guaranteed for the rest of the season. Oh my God, that melted me, Lisa Sykes said, her voice shaking. Continue with Recommended Cookies. She's been a tremendous help to our players and our players' girlfriends. Sykes mother called Keifer to tell him what happened, and when she couldnt reach him, she called his college coach Brian Wardle. I can't describe how gracious God has been toward us. In that week, Sykes averaged 28.7 points, five rebounds, and four assists per game while shooting 53.6% from the field, 50% from three, and leading the Phoenix to a 30 record. It's a dimension some critics didn't realize when they were all too eager to bemoan Dawson's performance in MSU's loss last Sunday at Wisconsin, wherein Dawson had four points and two rebounds. Magee is now enrolled at Grand Canyon University. Like Sykes, he opted not to turn pro early despite having a child to feed. Burrell's daughter, Alyson, is in Puerto Rico. "That was the hardest part, telling her, and the first thing she said was, 'She's going to be cute.'". The sacrifices she made, man. After being cut, Sykes could've left Indianapolis for good and focused . The two remain close, and Harrington said hes thankful the gun violence that changed his life didnt have the same effect on the player he nicknamed Special K., I just started calling him Special K because I knew that kid had something special about him, Harrington said. Baylor's Rico Gathers, who's closing in on the Big 12's single-season record for rebounds, isbeamingabout his wife and life over the phone. 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When Wardle got to Sykes' dorm room, the 18-year-old was sitting alone on his bathroom floor, sobbing. He was even more so on a mission than he was before.. At the time KJ was born Keifer was holding down a job with the Chicago Public Schools system, playing basketball and working rec centers with kids on the east side. KJ just can't wait to be 5 years old. "It's crazy, I told my son I'll never play 2K until I get on it, so that was kind of motivation for me. I thought I was going to pass out, but I stayed strong. Sykes, who went undrafted in 2015, signed a two-year contract with the Pacers last month after a strong season with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants in the NBA G League. That's the thing. Sykes is featured in the 2018 documentary film Chi-Town, produced and directed by Nick Budabin. She has been the backbone of the Sykes familysince Sykes' father, James, died of a heart attack June 6, 2012. "You don't want to encourage your guys to have kids out of wedlock, but when it happens, you have to help them. From mother to son. Keifer prides his relationship with his son as an extension of what he had with his dad. After waiting for months, Dawson found the courage while plopped on a bus headed to Milwaukee. NBA News. And as I have witnessed in recent days, the documentary is being augmented with a videographer. It was tough, but I knew that might be a part of my journey with me being at a mid-major, Sykes said. *" Chi-Town " is a well-known reference to the city of Chicago, home of the Chicago Bulls with one of the unquestionably all-time greats of basketball, Michael . "I know she's probably gonna cry (when I talk to her) because it's bringing tears to my eyes right now," Sykes said, his voice cracking. [28], On August 5, 2021, Sykes signed a contract with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). section: | slug: paternal-fraternity-the-overlooked-reality-behind-so-many-college-athletes-daily-lives-as-fathers | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | I asked a tearful Keifer Sykes (@ksykesyb), whose contract was guaranteed by the #Pacers, how he thinks his mom, Lisa (@Supermom00767), will react when he talks to her.She deserve this more than anybody. He took birth to his late father, James Sykes, and his mother, Lisa Sykes, as the youngest of their nine children. Sykes, wearing a black hat with "purpose." But that's what it takes to be a superhero for my family, a superhero in my community and a good basketball player. "The team was always paying us late, and they didn't think we would make the playoffs, but we got in the last spot, played the No. If it happens, he'll count that moment, along with the one he experienced Friday, as two big wins for his hometown. I can't wait to see her and hug her.". At Marshall, we were a basketball powerhouse, and it was a Chicago public school. Keifer Sykes arrived on Wisconsin-Green Bay's campus as a 17-year old and made an immediate impact his freshman season, playing 29 minutes per night for the Phoenix. After Keifer impregnated his former girlfriend, Allyne, he was horrified to tell mom. However,Sykeswas quickly thrust into the spotlight because of a COVID-19 outbreak within the team that sent Brogdon and Caris LeVert, who had been filling inas the team's starting point guard, into the league's health and safety protocols. "Looking back on my season, where did it go, and it's been a weird, weird year.". Every time dad gets home, son takes it right to the hoop. With Keifer Sykes. It wasn't a happy cry. Hows your team doing? he asked another. She took care of everybody, man. I shot that wing 3 against the Bulls,I air-balled. Being silly. (In this case, an ex-girlfriend of Kiefer's told her.) 1 seed and took them to Game 5, which is like Game 7 over there, and lost on their floor," Sykes said. " Rotowire Apr 6, 2022. Moments after making the million-dollar shot, it was reported by multiple outlets that Sykes signed with the Pacers, bookending a truly remarkable day. "As soon as I could see her a little bit, I was really protective of her, just because she's so innocent and so helpless," Johnson said. 'You don't know who this is?'". Our dedicated Editorial team verifies each of the articles published on the Biographyhost. He has not revealed his current relationship or marital status. 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