Afterward, he takes dozens of pictures and shakes the hands of nearly 200 people, plenty of whom he does not know. "So she just told me congratulations. (In this case, an ex-girlfriend of Kiefer's told her.) Unlike Dawson and Sykes, he's married. How tall is Keifer Sykes? One night, when a super . He quickly capitalized on his opportunity. Going to Europe would mean Sykes, who is not married and not dating the mother of his child, could not bring KJ with him. [3], After graduating high school, Sykes committed to play college basketball for coach Brian Wardle and eventually alongside Marshall teammates Alfonzo McKinnie and Vincent Garret, at Green Bay. "I walk in the door, my parents are sitting at the table. "It's always been this way, really, but off the record, it's demographics, number one, and popularity of basketball players today," one coach said. For some, this is a touchy subject. After a game, win or lose, I walk up to him and he's just laughing. "Most four-year players have a teammate at some point who is either having a child or has had a child," Illinois state coach Dan Muller, who's coached a few dads, said. Some of them terrifying, like the hell and stress Rhode Island's T.J. Buchanan has endured all season. "It's not easy, for me, but the best thing I have going on for me right now is my wife," Gathers said. Like Buchanan, and others currently playing college hoops, BYU's Josh Sharp also became a father last fall. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. His Pell Grant goes toward living needs, and the family receives government assistance in addition to food stamps and WIC, a national food stamps programs specifically for newborns and their mothers. I trained with different guys. 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. "It's the first time I had to do real school work. One of his brothers had called him before Wardle could break the news. The next day, Bloodman played 18 minutes against Kentucky. [19], In the summer of 2016, Sykes joined the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Summer League. Sykes said, laughing. It's very important to Keifer that KJ does not forget -- or rather, can easily remember -- who Keifer's father was. I was charging it. 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. [32], On November 3, 2022, Sykes was named to the opening night roster for the Motor City Cruise.[33]. The journeyman said it was disheartening to come within arm's reach of his NBA dream again, but he didnt stay down for long. The death of Sykes father painfully added to that. One thing Lisa Sykes made sure to add is, while her son shined the spotlight squarely on her, she didnt raise him alone. The unexpected death came a month removed from the end of Keifer's freshman year. "The rim looked so small. 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. I went into his room like, Yo, my dad died, and thats when it hit me.. He took birth to his late father, James Sykes, and his mother, Lisa Sykes, as the youngest of their nine children. A family of seven crammed into a two-bedroom place, where they lived until Sykes got to high school. However, they waived him on 21 October of the same year, after three preseason games. Just being able to see him now, its been crazy. After Saturday games, White drives east through the dark trails and over the Mississippi border to spend his Sundays with Joniah Jr. Memphis' Kedren Johnson can relate. "Looking back on my season, where did it go, and it's been a weird, weird year.". Sykes' relationship with his son is the connection he carries from the one he had with his father, that connection he still feels, but one that inevitably dims with the passage of time. Where the family is. I do a lot of things for my foundation before I was even in the NBA. Every time dad gets home, son takes it right to the hoop. Like Sykes, he's a senior NBA prospect. For Sykes, whos been giving back for years, that was the norm. I didn't have goals to go further. Sykes estimated he's trekked it back and forth about 20 times per season over the past four years. We come from poverty. We come from poverty. [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. "We felt defeated," he said. "You can hear him in the stands. I went to basketball for free college. However, Wanamaker struggled in the 22 games he appeared in, averaging 3.5 points on 36.1% . I finally opened it when I gathered my strength and the coaches were all crying, everybody was crying. Being silly. As of 2021, he is representing Fort Wayne Mad Ants, a professional basketball team of Indiana. Even prominent teams, like Gonzaga, are touched by early fatherhood. Keifer Sykes scanned the gym at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, watching as grade school children ran around playing basketball the game thats taken him around the world but never kept him away from home. He posted a picture carrying her and wrote a beautiful heartfelt message. An example of data being processed may be a unique identifier stored in a cookie. [14] On September 28, 2015, he signed with the San Antonio Spurs,[15] only to be waived by the team on October 21 after appearing in three preseason games. New Mexico and Mississippi State -- schools in the two states with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the country, feature players who are fathers. He relies on the motto, "More God," meaning that whenever he's faced with adversity, he'll trust God even more and remain the course. Gathers' teammate, Al Freeman? Simple things, like sleeping patterns. First and always, Sykes prides himself on being an awesome dad. "When I see him play against his favorite people, seeing him playing against Chris Paul and he went to Chris Pauls camp, its like its (full) circle.. If he's in town, have him around practice, around the locker room. His father taught him and told him about becoming a boy to a man, Lisa Sykes said. KJ crowned around dinnertime on Aug. 3, 2010, at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He was already a mature freshman, and that made him grow up even faster and kind of take his work ethic to another level. College basketball rosters across the country are dotted with young dads. I can't describe how gracious God has been toward us. He later joined the University of Wisconsin in Green Bay on a basketball scholarship. "Loved James Sykes. [28], On August 5, 2021, Sykes signed a contract with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). My brother calls me and gives me the news, literally out of my sleep. But that nightmare hasn't ended, neither has the pain. They're cautionary stories but uplifting ones, too. "I was speechless," he said. So many missed calls from his girlfriend. . You gotta be a hero to do that, to stand up in front of these kids and let them know like, I got cut from the NBA yesterday, but Imma keep pushing and try to make it, and then come back later and show them that I made it. Manage Settings Keifer says his first pro basketball check will go toward buying and engraving a tombstone for his father. Milwaukee Bucks (22-9, first in the Eastern . Until now, Sykes has never told the story of how he became a father, what the birth was like, the angst he went through and how scared and shocked he was by the process. Just to see him get that opportunity and be out here playing, Im so excited for him. pic.twitter.com/iZU0TTtaHa, James Boyd (@RomeovilleKid) January 15, 2022. We commit to cover sensible issues responsibly through the principles of neutrality. Johnson has two teammates, Markel Crawford and Trahson Burrell, who are fathers. "My players say I don't understand, but I do understand," Ray said. She's been a tremendous help to our players and our players' girlfriends. 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. He says there's more than $5,000 of his own cash allotted toward parenthood. Dawson's first two years at Michigan State consisted of few visits with My'Shawn during the season. He did not sleep overnight. Basketballer Keifer Sykes is Marshall High' star point guard, Chi-Town follows his ambitions to make it in the NBA while loss, injury, and violence back home in Chicago punctuate his journey. After taking a trip down memory lane at Marshall, Sykes headed to Proviso East, the alma mater of his friend and Mavericks guard Sterling Brown, to host a one-day basketball league and another coat drive the two pros organized together. I couldnt tell you that he was going to make a million-dollar shot or make it to the NBA, but from the time he was 13-years-old and getting ready to come to high school, I knew that boy was special., I asked #Suns star Devin Booker about his relationship with #Pacers rookie Keifer Sykes. Sykes, 21, just won his second straight Horizon League Player of the Year honor. But mom? But since Sykes' family felt he was already being overlooked due to his stature, they decided to send him an hour across town to Marshall on the West Side, where his dream of being a basketball star had a better chance of flourishing. Memphis also had a player, Dominic Magee, who initially transferred out of school earlier this season to be closer to his home in New Orleans to be with his young son. The child's mother, Cecilia, and members of both parents' families crammed into a hospital room and glanced back and forth between watching a father on TV and keeping an eye on T.J. sleep with tubes and probes keeping him alive. "I didn't expect much out of basketball," Sykes said. So when you see a kid and he graduated (high school) in 2021 on back, and he comes up and he makes it to the league, youll be like, Man, hes so tough. They have a hierarchy. Her name is Averyelle Dream. With the championship and money on the line, he drained the game-winning 3 to lift Boeheims army to a 69-67 walk-off victory. Yet, Forbes in 2019 evaluated that he must be receiving a minimum NBA salary which was $900,000. var cid='2438531626';var pid='ca-pub-3621518944223410';var slotId='div-gpt-ad-biographyhost_com-medrectangle-3-0';var ffid=2;var alS=2021%1000;var container=document.getElementById(slotId);container.style.width='100%';var ins=document.createElement('ins');ins.id=slotId+'-asloaded';ins.className='adsbygoogle ezasloaded';ins.dataset.adClient=pid;ins.dataset.adChannel=cid;if(ffid==2){ins.dataset.fullWidthResponsive='true';} However, no valid sources have yet revealed his annual pay in numbers. 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. Moments after making the million-dollar shot, it was reported by multiple outlets that Sykes signed with the Pacers, bookending a truly remarkable day. May 14 is the due date. My own trainers telling me, 'Prepare and train for overseas,' and I'm telling them, 'No.' 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. "My son played (NBA 2K) last night with me. On February 26, 2015, playing in his hometown of Chicago, Sykes scored a career-high 36 points against UIC to surpass the 2,000-point mark for his career. The first words out of his mouth are eerily foreshadowing. Life is too short. Aubrey was born at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24. We see him as one our guys, even though we only played a small part in his rise and elevation. Come August, Keifer will be three months removed from college. We play them (soon)!'" You can go D-I. These were things that I had doubts of. written on it in white letters, didnt hesitate before handing the kid his phone and obliging. He madehis firstNBA startat Cleveland onJan. 2, scoring 10 points. Without an iota of resentment in his voice, the Michigan State star answers: three years. Vital players at Cincinnati, Southeastern Louisiana and VCU (two players) are fathers. He has just one full sibling, James Sykes Jr., and seven more half-siblings: DaVon, Jarvis, Kristie, Jameeka,. "I was a freshman, already on the court, and trying to run a team, trying to learn, and learning how to be a dad and learn to be a college student," Sykes said. Like Sykes, he opted not to turn pro early despite having a child to feed. But the most important thing said that night: "The child will be taken care of." Keifer's always been a person purely at comfort around family and only his family. Over Indianas past two games,Sykes is averaging 20.0points, 5.5assists and 3.5rebounds while shooting 53.8% from the field, 50.0% on 3-pointers and 85.7% at the free-throw line. He felt shock, and immediately told his father. My'Shawn's mother lives back in Indiana; it was her idea to have father and child live together this season, in part because she's working night shifts at a Speedway to save money and find some quiet that was lost during the early years of My'Shawn's life. He later joined the San Antonio Spurs on 28 September 2015. That's the thing. And as I have witnessed in recent days, the documentary is being augmented with a videographer. A lot of people really wanted to get to that league, especially at that time when COVID was everywhere in the world and they just had less cases," Sykes said. James Sykes, a former vice president of the Broadway Armory Park association, is buried at Memorial Gardens in Homewood, Illinois. The craziest thing about this is that today is (Jan. 15), so today is the first time Ive seen an NBA check, Sykes said. He always had a way with kids, even when he was one. "People don't even know the half of it," Sykes said. The little guy is now doing better and just turned three months old. After Keifer impregnated his former girlfriend, Allyne, he was horrified to tell mom. Obviously the city is gonna be so happy,"Sykes said. " Like Bell at Gonzaga, Delaware's Kyle Anderson is a four-year starter. I wanted to wait a few days," Bell said. Once she looked up at me, it was over after that.". KJ just can't wait to be 5 years old. "I tried to hold back the tears. You cant eat before somebody whos older than you, you gotta bow, you cant drink alcohol in front of older people; it was just a full-blown different culture. He worries about his 4-year-old son, Keifer Jr., who lives in a neighborhood in Chicago that Sykes knows is violent. This June will mark a decade since Keifer Sykes father died, 10 years of carrying on without his biggest fan. But it doesnt matter. Crawford's son lives in Memphis. Weve actually talked about (that game) once or twice, and I brought it up just to see if he remembered it, Brogdon said. I didn't want my children to go through that. A few births have been by choice, but obviously many occur by accident. "I do not want to go pro overseas," he said. [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. "My stomach just dropped when I saw what he looked like. Undrafted out of the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in 2015, Sykes went on to play with the Austin Spurs - the San Antonio Spurs' NBA G-League affiliate - for his first professional season . The hardest thing was the drive. I remember looking up in the clouds like, My dad is in heaven already? Ill never forget that I was holding myself together until we got to the corner and turned down my block, thats when I was just like, Damn and broke down like crazy. And I was just like, OK, Imma kill, because if you dont do your thing, youre out.. He graduates in two months. "That was the hardest part, telling her, and the first thing she said was, 'She's going to be cute.'". At the end of the season, Sykes was named to the Horizon League All-Newcomer team. In thesix years of his professional career, Sykes has played for various leagues worldwide, including the NBA and NBA G League. Dawson's fellow father teammate is junior Bryn Forbes, who had a boy, Carter, born when Forbes played at Cleveland State. Soon after, the Austin Spurs acquired him for the NBA G League, and Sykes stayed there until 2016. 1:08; See All. "It's my job to do what my dad did and tell him who my dad was," Keifer said. More:Why do the Pacers keep losing close games? Its the shift (within in the community) that matters more.. The biggest phone call. "It's not easy," Sykes said of juggling fatherhood with basketball and an impending graduation. I just repeated it like, Remember what your dad said. His dad taught him everything he knows about being a man, being responsible and taking the lead in everything you do.. You could be winning and they still try to nitpick at something. On April 5, the 5-11 guard was autographing mini basketballs and. That was crazy, but the craziest part is that if we had made it to the championship (in Australia), I wouldve missed the deadline to submit (for TBT).. "We want to young parents, to be young grandparents, all of that," Anderson said. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, but Brogdon will never forget his introduction to Sykes. "And when the baby came out, man, it was so cool to be part of that atmosphere," Freeman said. "I don't ever want to go through that as a head coach again," Wardle said. 'You don't know who this is?'". Go to college, live your life. "The milk is spilt all over the place," she recalled saying. It made my heart weep in joy, not weep in sorrow but in joy that, Wow, he really feels that way about me.. Hes gonna have the film footage, and its the continuation of truly one of the amazing stories in sport.. Sykes,who was with the Pacers in the preseason before being waived, starred with Indiana's G-League affiliate, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, averaging 16.3 points and a league-high 8.0 assists in 13 games this season. In the 2017-18 season, Sykes played for Ankara DS S.K. He's brand new to this game. [7] Sykes and 7ft 1in (2.16m) standout player Alec Brown led the Phoenix to a 245 regular season record and finished first in the Horizon League. Really, he worried about leaving his son, how KJ would be without him, and not so much about what the schools thought of his situation or the backstory on his complicated family structure with a troupe of half-siblings. "I wasn't trying to map out a strategy to go pro. "So Im very fortunate to have that opportunity. Those are the things people have no idea what's going on behind closed doors with so many teams.". I see my daughter come out to the world.". But it came down to the last shot, and fortunately I was able to hit it and win us some money. 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. At Marshall, we were a basketball powerhouse, and it was a Chicago public school. [25], On October 4, 2020, Sykes signed a 1-month contract with Panathinaikos of the Greek Basket League. in the Turkish TBL, posting 22.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. Everything was going so fast.". He makes sure, no matter what, he keeps a good relationship with his baby's mother. He was closer to him than any of his other siblings. Joining his fifth club in 12 months, Keifer Sykes' path to his impressive NBL debut has been the continuation of a globetrotting journey for the Chicago native, who still has a goal to reach the NBA. After the euphoria of winning TBT and signing a training camp deal with the Pacers, Sykes faced another hurdle when he was cut before the season started. Sykes is from the South Side of Chicago, so he was originally supposed to attend Hyde Park Academy, Simeon or St. Rita, which have all produced pro players. Keifer, along with six of his siblings and half-siblings, took the red line train with mom and dad to City Hall. 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.". They want me to stay overseas to make more money for them. So whatever dreams they had, she backed them, which is why when Keifer Sykes fathered his son, Keifer Jr., at 16 and daughter, Kennedi, at 21, she volunteered to help take care of them while Sykes went to college at Wisconsin-Green Bay and continued his career overseas always chasing his ultimate goal of playing in the NBA. But in true Sykes fashion, he blocked out the naysayers and helped the Phoenix make the playoffs, finishing fourth in the 10-team league before being knocked out in the final four. More than a decade later, and after making a name for himself overseas, the only box Sykes said he had left to check was to beat the odds his younger self foretold and finally play in an NBA game. Sykes didn't like the recruiting process -- at all. He wasn't. 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. He was 55. It's free school, and I'm getting it, so let's go.". Although Sykes has not brought details of his wife in light, he is a father to his son Hugo and daughter Zarah. He and his wife/high school sweetheart, Laura, are expecting. It's nothing else but about KJ.". I was really on my own and traveling in Chicago for an hour each way each day. All rights reserved. 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. [24], On September 13, 2020, Sykes signed with Trk Telekom B.K. She has been the backbone of the Sykes familysince Sykes' father, James, died of a heart attack June 6, 2012. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I have made past mistakes in my life, and God continues to make a way for us. Keifer Sykes was born in Chicago, Illinois. When was Keifer Sykes born? Neither player entered the game, and McKinnie has since been waived, but that night McKinnie was just proud to exchange matching No. Without her, I wouldn't have been as successful as I have been this year.". To report about any issues in our articles, please feel free toContact Us. I didn't have my phone. Sykes said it was devastating to never receive his final payment, but he refused to surrender to his tough times aboard and eventually had a breakthrough campaign in Australia with the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the National Basketball League. I told him, 'Boost me up to 99 right now, and put me against Steph Curry! Flash to Feb. 12, 2015, and Freeman's sleeping in the chair next to Kylee, awaiting his miracle. My'Shawn's been to almost every Spartans home game this season, sitting with Dawson's high school coach, Johnny Ryan, and a former teammate, Devonte Harris. "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. By the time Wardle got to Sykes' dorm room, Sykes had locked himself in the bathroom as he grappled with one overarching and unshakable thought: The life he had before he went to sleep was gone. 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. The Pacers' Keifer Sykes.AP KJ doesn't know just yet how his grandfather died -- or even what death is, or that people disappear from the world in abrupt and unfair ways. Keifer Sykes, Indiana Pacers As a small guard playing in a big city, Sykes was consistently underappreciated and underranked. (Without prompt, Sykes publicly defended his coach throughout the ordeal.). "We were a stage for him to perform on. She took care of everybody, man. A chain response of fear, as it often does with teen pregnancies, triggered a stress reaction. Even when I got here, (Boucek) just following me on Instagram and Twitter, and telling me alwaysto continue to chip away at it.". They all have their own things that they do, and I got your back. His camp is having trouble getting them admitted into the road arenas. While Sykes soaked in the action, more youngsters filed into the gym and for nearly all of them Sykes had a greeting, Whats up, killa? he asked one kid. "Over time, shock turned into excitement," White said of his world changing as a 17-year-old. Because a lot of people dont even know the half of what it took for me to be here. We playing my hometown team, it was just my birthday (Dec. 30), everybody is excited like, 'You finally (got) the call up.' The sport is now, has long been, and will continue to be populated by men who are fathers well before they are emotionally and financially ready for the task. Breakups, forced relationships, long-distance relationships, fractures between families, money -- these are stresses that, comparatively, make basketball seem so simple. More: After hitting $1 million shot, Keifer Sykes signed with Pacers to be closer to home, Its only one team that wins out of 64, so the chances are whatever, Sykes said. I can't wait to see her and hug her.". Keifer Sykes' 3-pointer wins TBT for Boeheim's Army. They just don't know. His daughter Zarah has just turned six years old on 22 September 2021. Fortunately, despite varied situations, some of which are depicted below, many have happy circumstances. Waiting. Imagine sitting in a class, your leg jackhammering the tile, waiting for a phone call to come. The season included an upset over eventual Atlantic Coast Conference regular season champion (and NCAA tournament 1-seed) Virginia in a game which saw Sykes score 21 points and distribute 10 assists. After being cut, Sykes could've left Indianapolis for good and focused . Sykes was still at Wisconsin Green-Bay when the shooting happened and came to visit Harrington shortly afterward. Sykes, wearing a black hat with "purpose." When Wardle got to Sykes' dorm room, the 18-year-old was sitting alone on his bathroom floor, sobbing. For me, my pride in him is just on his self-belief and determination.. When I first committed, I didn't know where basketball would take me. "(My mom) put it together after the fact," Sykes said. At the conclusion of the regular season, Sykes was again named first team all-conference, he was named an honorable mention AP All-American, and was named Horizon Player of the Year. He listens. We do a lot of things to help his daughter because as a single mom . Wardle answered his phone that afternoon to hear the mother of his talented newcomer crying on the other line. All Rights Reserved. Until she did. 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. Probably no one better to hear it from (than) her because she always believed in me, her being a guard coach. Im not entitled to anything, and Im still working. Its a real heros journey.. So it's just amazing. According to dad, My'Shawn's "not the typical kid who wants to come home and watch cartoons." Home. "He's a ball of fire," Green Bay coach Brian Wardle said of KJ. My foundation is about mass incarcerationand gun violence. As COVID-19 began to change the landscape of everyday life, Sykes signed a one-year deal with the Phoenix, turning down more money in Europe and betting on himself to turn his stint down under into a springboard to the NBA. When he's running around, jumping, having fun, I can't do nothing but laugh. Mississippi State is the prime example. From mother to son. 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