Now, after seldomly getting to see his him early in his college years, Dawson's senior season has been a change for the happier. In thesix years of his professional career, Sykes has played for various leagues worldwide, including the NBA and NBA G League. "That was the hardest part, telling her, and the first thing she said was, 'She's going to be cute.'". The game-winner capped. He and KJ communicate every day; KJ can unlock an iPhone and FaceTime in no time. Anderson is banking on landing a pro contract overseas this spring or summer. 2023 www.indystar.com. "I don't ever want to go through that as a head coach again," Wardle said. So I went into my roommates room, and I just woke him up and just said it to him and just got to breaking down crazy. The only thing thats changed lately is his platform. And if you got children, I got your childrens back because youre doing something positive.. Sykes could match upagainst his "best friend" for the first time in the NBA when Indiana hosts Chicago on Feb. 4. Unlike Dawson and Sykes, he's married. [13], After going undrafted in the 2015 NBA draft, Sykes joined the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 2015 NBA Summer League. 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 . 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. So all I wanted to do is take care of her. 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. "This is not the time for that," Cassandra Dawson told her son, thinking he was kidding. SMU sophomore Keith Frazier, who's been suspended for the season, is a dad to a boy who's nearly 3 years old. [30], On December 27, 2021, Sykes signed with the Indiana Pacers for the remainder of the season. All coaches who were asked estimated that more than half the teams in Division I men's basketball currently have at least one player who is father, or a father-to-be, on their roster. 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. I could never do that. Sykes' son represents an overlooked and under-discussed fact of life for so many college athletes: fatherhood. *" 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 . "The sacrifices she made, man. My own trainers telling me, 'Prepare and train for overseas,' and I'm telling them, 'No.' 2004-2023 CBS Interactive. He posted a picture carrying her and wrote a beautiful heartfelt message. 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.. Sometimes he'll drive to Chicago, pick KJ up, stay for but a few minutes, and head right back to campus. So, if I get a DNP, how could I be mad? Keifer Sykes is 29 years old. 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. Almost every player interviewed for this story was scared to tell mom. INDIANAPOLIS Keifer Sykes knew the Pacers' season was ending. There was yelling on one end of the line and a 15-year-old stomach swirling to mush on the other. We and our partners use cookies to Store and/or access information on a device. They think, 'that's what I eat, so that's what the baby should eat.' "I really made the NBA.". 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. We put in all that work, and they didn't pay us. 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. On Tuesday morning, Buchanan got into a car with his father, aunt and uncle and drove nearly four hours to join his team in Dayton, Ohio. But it doesnt matter. Keifer Sykes. "I immediately fell in love with her.". The next thing I know I hear the coaches banging on the door. 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. According to dad, My'Shawn's "not the typical kid who wants to come home and watch cartoons." Keifer Sykes was born on 30 December, 1993 in Chicago, Illinois, United States, is an American basketball player. I do a lot of camps (in my hometown). Like Sykes, he's a senior NBA prospect. [11] For the week of January 410 of 2015, Sykes won the Naismith National Player of the Week Award. 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. KJ crowned around dinnertime on Aug. 3, 2010, at Mount Sinai Medical Center. On Friday, the deadlinefor NBA teams to guarantee contracts for the rest of the season, the28-year-old rookiegot the last laugh whenthe Pacers decided to keep himand third-year swingmanOshae Brissett through the end of their campaign. We've had them come in as a group and have my wife talking about child-rearing. With these body stats, he has recorded his highest vertical jump of 44.5 inches. The annual $1 million tourney features several alumni squads from around the country filled with professional players, and while Sykes was hesitant to play in TBT at first, it resulted in one of the best moments of his career. Chicago. Hes so well-rounded. Its been a blessing. Sykes is featured in the 2018 documentary film Chi-Town, produced and directed by Nick Budabin. And as I have witnessed in recent days, the documentary is being augmented with a videographer. Gathers saved up his scholarship checks ($400 per month) and Pell Grant money to help pay Bria's rent, which came to nearly $800/month. Sykes subsequently joined the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and averaged 16.3 points, 8 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game. NBA News. 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';} After a game, win or lose, I walk up to him and he's just laughing. 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 says there's more than $5,000 of his own cash allotted toward parenthood. One team has a player with two children born from two women three months apart. 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. "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. The undersized guard scored a career- and team-high22 points Tuesday against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden and went toe-to-toe Wednesday with Nets superstar Kyrie Irving, who made his season debut in Indianapolis. For more than a few college athletes, this is the side of life the public does not see. Its a remarkable story, and his story obviously goes back way before the NBA with his rise through Chicago.. And for him to do that, it was just so overwhelming. I was charging it. He was just a really good man. "The milk is spilt all over the place," she recalled saying. It's a seven-hour drive round trip from Green Bay to Chicago. "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. [32], On November 3, 2022, Sykes was named to the opening night roster for the Motor City Cruise.[33]. Sykes said having his contract guaranteed through the end of theseason is "the highlight of my professional career," and he's thrilled that his 6-year-old daughter, Kennedi, and11-year-old son, Keifer Jr., can finally say their daddy is officially in the NBA. He took birth to his late father, James Sykes, and his mother, Lisa Sykes, as the youngest of their nine children. After Keifer impregnated his former girlfriend, Allyne, he was horrified to tell mom. We come from poverty. College basketball rosters across the country are dotted with young dads. Five and a half years later, James and Lisa Sykes married, on April 27, 1999. If he's in town, have him around practice, around the locker room. "At this point, she's three months pregnant," Keifer said. So I really had to focus in and just go out there and do what I do.". We had nothing, man. He's a guy that people have underestimated, whether its his size or what school he went to, and hes clearly continued to work on his game, to grind, to believe in himself. His college scholarship goes toward rent. 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.". Simple things, like sleeping patterns. Keifer Sykes' 3-pointer wins TBT for Boeheim's Army. I dont know why they wouldnt allow this story to be continued in as much detail as possible. Sykes went scoreless in his NBA debut against Charlotte on Dec. 29 and twodays later totaledtwo pointsagainst his hometown Bulls. She took care of everybody.. Sykes said his mother will be in attendance for his sixthNBA game and first asaguaranteed player Saturday night when the Pacers host Utah at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. 28 jerseys with his best friend. He's a good kid; he's not a distraction.". Sykes studied at Marshall High School, where he started playing basketball. I thought I was going to pass out, but I stayed strong. We both were really scared. As apro-basketball player, Sykes weighs around 175 pounds and stands at theheightof 5 feet 11 inches. Probably no one better to hear it from (than) her because she always believed in me, her being a guard coach. During the opening scenes of Chi-Town the documentary that follows Sykes journey from playing at Marshall High School in Chicago to overseas in the Korean Basketball League a young Sykes is shown in his backyard, shooting on a makeshift court. So I want to be thatvoice for them, and I'm happy to be in this position.". "Keifer Sykes was a +27," Pacers assistant coach Mike Weinar said when spotlighting players who were effective in a summer league win over the Wizards. [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. Keifer's always been a person purely at comfort around family and only his family. I can't wait to talk to her. 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These are the guys helping Dawson, watching the little one when he's away, driving My'Shawn to and from pre-K school sessions. For me, my pride in him is just on his self-belief and determination.. Once she looked up at me, it was over after that.". It's a lot of bloodshed in my city, a lot people dying, and I feel like God placed me in this position also to shed light on those things and to show that some people are able to be talented and get out, but some people aren't. 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. Chi-Town: Directed by Nick Budabin. However, no valid sources have yet revealed his annual pay in numbers. All Rights Reserved. 1 seed and took them to Game 5, which is like Game 7 over there, and lost on their floor," Sykes said. " Whereas Dawson did not have a prominent father, Sykes' relationship with his was irrepressible. "She heard a thump, which was him falling over, but she didn't think nothing of it. A young man will ask his boy about his father. Sykes went on to become a three-time First-Team All-Horizon League honoree and two-time Horizon League Player of the Year, solidifying himself as one of the best players in Wisconsin-Green Bay history. Magee is now enrolled at Grand Canyon University. 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 an intense situation for Ray and plenty of coaches who've become surrogate fathers in plenty of ways, this being a prominent one. There are dads playing at Minnesota and UNC Wilmington. [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. He's the boss.". 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. Stephen A.: Lakers won't advance beyond play-in without LeBron. He also became the only player in Horizon League history to record those same career totals. He converted a traditional 3-point play when he drove, banked a shot and got a free throw, too. 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. These are really childhood dreams we turned into reality for real, and I think thats the most exciting part. And I was just like, OK, Imma kill, because if you dont do your thing, youre out.. "I was on thetraining table. A few births have been by choice, but obviously many occur by accident. Bloodman's long been saving for this. Gathers, who's likely to return for his senior season, said his household of three is living off $15,000 per year. Hes really popular in the community, and were just so proud of him. We see him as one our guys, even though we only played a small part in his rise and elevation. Sykes said his indomitable spirit was instilled in him by his father, who put him in school a year early because he could handle it. And whenever Sykes thought he was too young or too small, his father would tell him not to give up. 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. But the most important thing said that night: "The child will be taken care of." For some, this is a touchy subject. Of course he was worried about telling mom. 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. Sykes joined the Pacers in late December after the team released reserve point guard Brad Wanamaker. One thing Lisa Sykes made sure to add is, while her son shined the spotlight squarely on her, she didnt raise him alone. She's going through the same thing these young ladies are going through. I was an All-Star, we won the regular-season (league) title and postseason title, but over there its so cutthroat, 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. section: | slug: paternal-fraternity-the-overlooked-reality-behind-so-many-college-athletes-daily-lives-as-fathers | sport: collegebasketball | route: article_single.us | Green Bay's Henry Uwadiae, a 6-foot-11 Nigerian-born sophomore, had a daughter born last summer. For Sykes, whos been giving back for years, that was the norm. Rhode Island and Nevada. Though each situation is different, if there was one player whose circumstances most resembled Sykes', it's Dawson's. 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. He dapped the boy up and encouraged him to dream big, which is fitting for Sykes, a 28-year-old NBA rookie. I went into his room like, Yo, my dad died, and thats when it hit me.. I was really on my own and traveling in Chicago for an hour each way each day. Oh my God, that melted me, Lisa Sykes said, her voice shaking. There are major facets to these players' lives that are never seen, seldom known, but emotionally significant signposts toward personal growth and elemental struggle. If it happens, he'll count that moment, along with the one he experienced Friday, as two big wins for his hometown. Almost nothing about Sykes' life or current situation is normal (he impregnated his then-girlfriend, Allyne, when he was 15). 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. Like Sykes, he opted not to turn pro early despite having a child to feed. Sykes cashes a deep 3-pointer as time expires at the end of the first half. 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. "A curious boy who loves to be around his cousins. 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. 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.. [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. when he's on the foul line. His daughter Zarah has just turned six years old on 22 September 2021. Because KJ wants to be a big boy really fast. "You don't want to encourage your guys to have kids out of wedlock, but when it happens, you have to help them. The two-time Horizon League Player of the Year scores a career-best 36 against UIC, helping the Phoenix win 72-67. What he didn't know was that he wouldn't be a part of it. Sykes estimated he's trekked it back and forth about 20 times per season over the past four years. 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. When James passed away, it was hard on everybody, but something definitely clicked in Keifer, Wardle said. Flash to Feb. 12, 2015, and Freeman's sleeping in the chair next to Kylee, awaiting his miracle. More:Pacers swingmen Torrey Craig, Justin Anderson enter NBA's COVID-19 protocols. The player is now back at school, away from his child, but not on the team. He left a big mark on his teammates. Sykes, a former point guard for the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, sunk a pull-up three to give Boeheim's Army a 69-67 win over Team 23 in Tuesday's TBT championship. 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. "More basketball players have the opportunity to have sex with more girls. Some schools turned down interview requests. 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. Keifer Sykes Jr. does not know who James Sykes was. As of 2021, he is representing Fort Wayne Mad Ants, a professional basketball team of Indiana. Dawson remembers that. 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. "You can hear him in the stands. It wasn't a happy cry. 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. Supported by his mother, Keifer Sykes finally saw his lifelong dream come to fruition last year. Another is dealing with a touch-and-go situation in regard to an abortion decision. I was gonna have to fight an uphill battle, so I was already ready for it if I didnt get drafted.. He quickly capitalized on his opportunity. I can't describe how gracious God has been toward us. I lost like 40 or 50 grand.". Sykes elevated his play in the postseason, including a game in which he recorded 31 points and 6 steals in a 26-point comeback in a win-or-go-home game 3. Aubrey was born at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24. 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. I didn't learn that until Igotto college.". A family of seven crammed into a two-bedroom place, where they lived until Sykes got to high school. "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. But that's what it takes to be a superhero for my family, a superhero in my community and a good basketball player. [22] The film follows Sykes' path from high school to his brush with the NBA. 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. Its a real heros journey.. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at She's long had a keen love for caring for the young, something as immediately evident in Keifer as his flaring athleticism. How old is Keifer Sykes? After a successful college career, Sykesplayed the 2015 NBA Summer Leaguewith the Cleveland Cavaliers. "I wouldn't say that it was planned but I definitely wouldn't say it was an accident," Gathers said of Bria's pregnancy, the climax of which included Rico taking four trips in one day to a Danny & Clyde's po'boy joint while Bria was in labor. Sykes and the mother of his child broke up when he was 17, when he left for college. Like Freeman, Johnson's been a father for only a few weeks. 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. Sykes said, laughing. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? We treat him as one of us. Reach him via email: jboyd1@gannett.com. 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. And when Michigan State's got a road game, he'll ask Johnny or Devonte, "Is that my dad playing?". 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. That's the thing. I told them, 'Don't have any babies. Like Bell at Gonzaga, Delaware's Kyle Anderson is a four-year starter. I just needed to be myself, so I went into the bathroom, but I couldnt really get back up, Sykes said. 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. His dad is alive, but he's not around and never has been. Weve actually talked about (that game) once or twice, and I brought it up just to see if he remembered it, Brogdon said. When Sykes joined the Phoenix, they were an expansion team in Year 2 of their development, and according to Mitchell, no one expected much from them or Sykes. An uncle to six and the son of a farmer, Anderson grew up bailing hay in Newark, Illinois. "All the different agents that I went through. 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. 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. How tall is Keifer Sykes? Even prominent teams, like Gonzaga, are touched by early fatherhood. We do a lot of things to help his daughter because as a single mom . [19], In the summer of 2016, Sykes joined the Golden State Warriors in the 2016 NBA Summer League. We've had people tell us to not keep the baby, frankly.". I was kind of sad. They're cautionary stories but uplifting ones, too. Where the family is. Keifer Sykes was born on December 30, 1993. He was on a trip for a basketball tournament, and that's when he called his mother at work. Lisa Sykes was asking her son's coach to tell Keifer his father was gone because she couldn't bear to do it. 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. You go to South Korea and thats a whole different culture, Sykes said. Its really not about the NBA, Sykes says. Being silly. 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. The mother, who Kedren has known since middle school, lives in Johnson's hometown of Lewisburg, Tennessee. Breakups, forced relationships, long-distance relationships, fractures between families, money -- these are stresses that, comparatively, make basketball seem so simple. They just don't know. "My stomach just dropped when I saw what he looked like. It's very important to Keifer that KJ does not forget -- or rather, can easily remember -- who Keifer's father was. The point guard impressed early. One of those players already had a child, and the other had one on the way. As Sykes sat in the Pacers' practice facility after shootaround Tuesday, he laughed as he reflected on his Italian team, Scandone Avellino, going bankrupt after the 2018-19 season and failing to pay its players their full salaries. Home. He'll want to turn to ESPN and watch a basketball game. To him, these are secondary anecdotes. Every mom always finds out. ", James Sykes died of heart failure on June 6, 2012. 'You don't know who this is?'". Sykes father, James, died of a heart attack June 6, 2012. And these (five games) that he's played, he's played tremendously. But that nightmare hasn't ended, neither has the pain. I just wanted to run away [from it]. 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