The two met in middle school in Louisiana, and remained close friends until things turned romantic midway through high school. (Without prompt, Sykes publicly defended his coach throughout the ordeal.). Although Sykes has not brought details of his wife in light, he is a father to his son Hugo and daughter Zarah. He says there's more than $5,000 of his own cash allotted toward parenthood. Mississippi State's Rick Ray is a coach with a lot of thoughts on this because he has a lot of players -- five of them -- in this situation. For his senior season, Sykes had high expectations as he was placed on the Bob Cousy Award Watch List (later becoming a Cousy Award Finalist), the Wooden Award Watch List, and the Naismith Award Watch List during the preseason. 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. In thesix years of his professional career, Sykes has played for various leagues worldwide, including the NBA and NBA G League. Those are the things people have no idea what's going on behind closed doors with so many teams.". One of Sykes signature moments came when he scored five points a dagger 3 and layup on back-to-back plays in overtime of a dramatic 121-117 upset win against Stephen Curry and the Warriors at Chase Center on Jan. 20. [11] For the week of January 410 of 2015, Sykes won the Naismith National Player of the Week Award. Without her, I wouldn't have been as successful as I have been this year.". 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. "At first there was a lot of fear. "My players say I don't understand, but I do understand," Ray said. She took care of everybody, man. A lot of people don't see the world until college. "I don't want to go out of the States. Reach him via email: jboyd1@gannett.com. The player is now back at school, away from his child, but not on the team. "He's absolutely like his dad," Lisa Sykes said of her youngest. So I really had to focus in and just go out there and do what I do.". Wardle, who is now the head coach at Bradley, called James Sykes a tremendous man, the type who, alongside Lisa Sykes, wanted his son to be held to the highest standard in all areas. Luckily for Wardle, he said he never had to spend too much energy in those departments because even though Sykes was just 17 when he made his college debut making him one of the youngest players in the country he was prepared beyond his years. He averaged 11.2 points and 3.3 assists per game. From mother to son. We treat him as one of us. Sykes said he was in a state of denial, praying hed wake up and the nightmare would be over. I remember we used to play in the alley, McKinnie said. Where the family is. And I guess she thought or they thought I had maybe talked to my agent but I hadn't," Sykes said. How much does Keifer Sykes weigh? He's going beyond the expectations of being there for his son. He does, however, remember the last time he saw his father, when James Sykes dropped him off at either a train or bus station to go back to Wisconsin Green-Bay to continue summer classes and workouts. He was named first team All-Horizon League.[6]. More:Pacers swingmen Torrey Craig, Justin Anderson enter NBA's COVID-19 protocols. NBA News. Sykes was the undersized and underprivileged kid who was supposed to be swallowed up by the inner city, broken after his fathers death and discouraged by the countless doubters who told him reaching the NBA was a pipe dream. when he's on the foul line. He did not sleep overnight. So all of this has been more than me. Like Freeman, Johnson's been a father for only a few weeks. "Looking back on my season, where did it go, and it's been a weird, weird year.". He wasn't. He was closer to him than any of his other siblings. Upon returning to Marshall whose alumni includes "Hoop Dreams" documentary star Arthur Agee, Timberwolves guard Patrick Beverly and two-time WNBA champion Cappie Pondexter Sykes gifted his former coaches and teachers a Pacers jersey as a thank you for believing in him and laying the foundation for his path to the NBA. Sometimes he'll drive to Chicago, pick KJ up, stay for but a few minutes, and head right back to campus. "As a coach, you would love to have all parents talk to him in a lot of ways. He graduates in two months. He's second on Green Bay's all-time scoring list, a mutantly athletic 6-foot-tall NBA prospect trying to will the program to its firstNCAA Tournamentbid since 1996. He does stuff in his community.' They all have their own things that they do, and I got your back. Some of the scenarios are not ideal. Sykes spent one season in South Korea, but he said that was just the beginning of the hardships he faced as he continued playing in Italy, Greece, Turkey and China. [27], On December 8, 2020, Sykes signed a one-year contract with the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). Perfect place for an unforgettable night in a tiny, half-filled gym, Illinois-Chicago's UIC Pavilion. From grade school to now, I really paid the cost. He listens. Because a lot of people dont even know the half of what it took for me to be here. Whereas Dawson did not have a prominent father, Sykes' relationship with his was irrepressible. Their relationship was so strong, their parents were OK with Bria moving to Waco, enrolling in a community college, and living in her own apartment at 18. 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. American NBA Player, Representative of Fort Wayne Mad Ants, Indiana. 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. He so reminds me of Keifer.". "We felt defeated," he said. There's too many [coaches] calling me. It's free school, and I'm getting it, so let's go.". INDIANAPOLIS Keifer Sykes knew the Pacers' season was ending. I was at the back and people didnt believe in me, but my dad always believed in me and always affirmed me.. He posted a picture carrying her and wrote a beautiful heartfelt message. He and KJ communicate every day; KJ can unlock an iPhone and FaceTime in no time. "She's the key to being married, to being a dad. August 5, 2020. Aubrey was born at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24. At James Sykes' urging, and Keifer's own interest in ending the courtship of so many other coaching staffs, he committed fairly early as a junior. 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. Its a remarkable story, and his story obviously goes back way before the NBA with his rise through Chicago.. Hes so well-rounded. They say, 'You don't know what it's like to be on food stamps,' and I say, 'I've been through it.'". He remembers hopping into a car after getting that call, riding with the aunt of My'Shawn's mother, a 10-minute drive to Methodist Hospital. section: | slug: paternal-fraternity-the-overlooked-reality-behind-so-many-college-athletes-daily-lives-as-fathers | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | Just being able to see him now, its been crazy. At the time I didnt know that, but he was affirming my greatness. Averyelle was born shortly after the sun came up. One of his brothers had called him before Wardle could break the news. My foundation is about mass incarcerationand gun violence. 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. 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 joined the Pacers in late December after the team released reserve point guard Brad Wanamaker. He was just a really good man. You could call this, The Keifer Effect, McKinnie said. "One time I asked him, and he didn't know. Think back to high school. "Over time, shock turned into excitement," White said of his world changing as a 17-year-old. "Because if dont nobody else deserve it, Keifer deserves it., Sykes has totaled 33 games in his NBA career, 10 of which he didnt play in. And for him to do that, it was just so overwhelming. "I just stuck with the plan and for it to become real, man, it's just a testament to believing in yourself. Going to Europe would mean Sykes, who is not married and not dating the mother of his child, could not bring KJ with him. 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. As of 2021, he is representing Fort Wayne Mad Ants, a professional basketball team of Indiana. At one point, a boy asked the Indiana Pacers guard to follow him on Instagram. It has been less than two weeks but with all of the COVID roster shuffling and another player,. Sykes keeps in touch with all of them but he hasn't seen Kristie and Antawn in years. Having seen each other from afar in previous years, they met again, of all places, in an ER when she was 23. So they bring the other (American) player in and start working him out so they can be ready and they tell you whatever games you have that week, and at the end of the week they decide to keep you or cut you. Im not entitled to anything, and Im still working. With these body stats, he has recorded his highest vertical jump of 44.5 inches. Imagine sitting in a class, your leg jackhammering the tile, waiting for a phone call to come. My own trainers telling me, 'Prepare and train for overseas,' and I'm telling them, 'No.' 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. The game-winner capped. All Rights Reserved. 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. 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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).. I'm still frustrated we lost, but now I'm like, that's over with. "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.". (In this case, an ex-girlfriend of Kiefer's told her.) It wasn't a happy cry. However, he regularlymentions his children during interviewsand posts pictures of them on his social media handles. 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.. "That was the hardest part, telling her, and the first thing she said was, 'She's going to be cute.'". That's money which now goes toward feeding their baby boy, Ricardo Darnell Gathers Jr., who came into the world at 4:53 a.m. on June 13, 2014. He had the game," Mitchell said. Manage Settings I wanted to wait a few days," Bell said. There was yelling on one end of the line and a 15-year-old stomach swirling to mush on the other. He was already a mature freshman, and that made him grow up even faster and kind of take his work ethic to another level. I was kind of sad. James Sykes, a former vice president of the Broadway Armory Park association, is buried at Memorial Gardens in Homewood, Illinois. Sykes averaged 5.6 points, 1.9 assists and 1.4 rebounds . Keifer Sykes scanned the gym at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois, watching as grade school children ran around playing basketball the game that's taken him around the world but. 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. In this, Dawson's final year at Michigan State, My'Shawn has lived with him, the two of them bonding, sharing meals in a small off-campus apartment. 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. 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. ", James Sykes died of heart failure on June 6, 2012. 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. When James passed away, it was hard on everybody, but something definitely clicked in Keifer, Wardle said. And whatever makes the mother happy, it's all about making the child happy. However, they waived him on 21 October of the same year, after three preseason games. They think, 'that's what I eat, so that's what the baby should eat.' [17], On November 13, Sykes made his professional debut in a 10482 win over the Texas Legends, recording eight points, one rebound, six assists and three steals in 17 minutes off the bench. [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. The death of Sykes father painfully added to that. Our dedicated Editorial team verifies each of the articles published on the Biographyhost. I just wanted to run away [from it]. "We want to young parents, to be young grandparents, all of that," Anderson said. Its really not about the NBA, Sykes says. written on it in white letters, didnt hesitate before handing the kid his phone and obliging. The Pacers' Keifer Sykes.AP The ones, even in his inner circle, who repeatedly toldhim he'd never make it to the NBA. If he's in town, have him around practice, around the locker room. Supported by his mother, Keifer Sykes finally saw his lifelong dream come to fruition last year. "My stomach just dropped when I saw what he looked like. Sykes was waived by the Pacers on Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Athletic reports. After Keifer impregnated his former girlfriend, Allyne, he was horrified to tell mom. He'll want to turn to ESPN and watch a basketball game. Sykes, a 5ft 11in (1.80m) point guard, was born in Chicago, Illinois, to the late James Sykes as the second oldest of seven children. 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. This June will mark a decade since Keifer Sykes father died, 10 years of carrying on without his biggest fan. "So Im very fortunate to have that opportunity. Sykes is featured in the 2018 documentary film Chi-Town, produced and directed by Nick Budabin. [32], On November 3, 2022, Sykes was named to the opening night roster for the Motor City Cruise.[33]. Every time dad gets home, son takes it right to the hoop. Branden does not carry his father's last name. 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. "More basketball players have the opportunity to have sex with more girls. We come from poverty. The next day, Bloodman played 18 minutes against Kentucky. 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. 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. One night, when a super . He didn't sleep through the night, and in the darkest hour, their child was born. She's going through the same thing these young ladies are going through. Come August, Keifer will be three months removed from college. They just don't know. The next thing I know I hear the coaches banging on the door. Keifer Sykes weighs 180 lbs (81 kg). And if you got children, I got your childrens back because youre doing something positive.. 2023 www.indystar.com. "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. For me, my pride in him is just on his self-belief and determination.. 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. So all I wanted to do is take care of her. You scope college basketball, and the stories are everywhere. "It's fun, though. Sykes credits his humbleness to his parents, James and Lisa Sykes, who were featured in a documentary about Sykes rise to high school and college stardom called, Chi-Town. The film shows the harrowing circumstances that he and his family were subjected to in inner-city Chicago, including rampant gun violence, which left one of Sykes' former high school teammates and a former coach paralyzed, while another former teammate went to prison for armed robbery. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. Sykes has seen his role grow over the years, shouldering more and more of the offensive workload for Green Bay, while rounding himself into a dynamic offensive option. When was Keifer Sykes born? I see my daughter come out to the world.". A chain response of fear, as it often does with teen pregnancies, triggered a stress reaction. It wasnt like when I went to Europe and your teammates have been around American players enough to know some English. Moreover, last year on her 5th birthday, Sykes took it to his Instagram @ksykeyb28. Home. "So she just told me congratulations. With Keifer Sykes. He's got a goofy personality and caring heart but also boasts a paternal side that's as sanguine as it is dedicated. Turning 5 will be the milestone. Despite those hurdles, there Sykes was, still standing years later and using his day off before his first major NBA road trip to inspire the next generation. *" 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 . 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. 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. Although Sykes has not brought details of his wife in light, he is a father to his son Hugo and daughter Zarah. Sykes subsequently joined the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and averaged 16.3 points, 8 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game. We play them (soon)!'" 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. 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. It's scary how fast he is at it. "People don't even know the half of it," Sykes said. I was the first person to see him, which was pretty cool.". He and his wife/high school sweetheart, Laura, are expecting. Like I said, I feel like I have one of the better stories, one of the best stories ever, when you think about what I had to go through.". Sykes joined Indianas G League affiliate, the Fort Wayne Mad Ants, and clawed his way back to the Pacers, who eventually signed him to a guaranteed deal for the rest of the 2021-22 season. 1:08; See All. 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. Once my brother left, I went to school by myself. It's been an emotional journey for Freeman, who went out and bought a few pregnancy tests last summer, and then cried and hugged Kylee as they discovered they'd be parents. Weve actually talked about (that game) once or twice, and I brought it up just to see if he remembered it, Brogdon said. "When I got there, I was nervous, and it was kind of surreal," he said. I could never do that. "I tell them I grew up just as disenfranchised and poverty-stricken as they were. 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. He'll do it if it becomes absolutely mandatory, but for now, he refuses to leave KJ. At the start of the 201314 season, Sykes was named to the preseason All-Horizon League team and was a nominee for the Bob Cousy Award for top point guard in the country. The plan is for mother and child to pack up and go with. I was sleeping, Sykes said. The former University of Wisconsin-Green Bay star . . Hed come so close in the past and inched even closer with a shot that turned him into an overnight sensation. 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