But it doesnt matter. "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. One night, when a super . INDIANAPOLIS Keifer Sykes remembers every doubter. The diminutive guard, who's averaging 5.7 points per game, said he never gets discouraged, though, because hes learned that nothing is guaranteed while hes on his heros journey.. 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: Waived by Indiana. I didn't have goals to go further. But that nightmare hasn't ended, neither has the pain. Keifer Jerail Sykes (born December 30, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Motor City Cruise of the NBA G League. 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. The Pacers' Keifer Sykes.AP Sykes subsequently joined the Fort Wayne Mad Ants and averaged 16.3 points, 8 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game. Trivante Bloodman is a 22-year-old senior guard from Harlem who's barely been able to sleep in the past week. Unlike Dawson and Sykes, he's married. 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. Five and a half years later, James and Lisa Sykes married, on April 27, 1999. He also became the only player in Horizon League history to record those same career totals. 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. But the most important thing said that night: "The child will be taken care of." Keifer Sykes Jr. does not know who James Sykes was. I didn't have my phone. He later joined the San Antonio Spurs on 28 September 2015. He was closer to him than any of his other siblings. Lisa Sykes was asking her son's coach to tell Keifer his father was gone because she couldn't bear to do it. "When she told me, I kind of freaked out. On Dec. 7, 2013, Wisconsin Green-Bay hosted and upset Virginia behind a stellar performance from Sykes. Don't do what I did.'". Dozens of programs were contacted for this story and asked if they had a player on their roster who was a father or a father-to-be. The contract became guaranteed. Every situation is different. Antetokounmpo leads Milwaukee against Brooklyn after 45-point game. "When I got there, I was nervous, and it was kind of surreal," he said. Im not entitled to anything, and Im still working. Supported by his mother, Keifer Sykes finally saw his lifelong dream come to fruition last year. May 14 is the due date. 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. Wardle describes it as the hardest situation of his career, far beyond anything he faced during the summer of 2013, when accusations of verbal mistreatment from former Green Bay players threatened his job. Crawford's son lives in Memphis. Those are the things people have no idea what's going on behind closed doors with so many teams.". Discover Keifer Sykes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. I couldnt believe it.. Sykes said he was in a state of denial, praying hed wake up and the nightmare would be over. He and his wife/high school sweetheart, Laura, are expecting. Most guessed higher than 75 percent. 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. Sykes, 21, just won his second straight Horizon League Player of the Year honor. The 5-foot-11 guard signed a training camp deal with the Pacers but was waived before the start of the 2021-22 campaign. 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. From there, Sykes bounced around the fringes of the NBA, joining the Cavaliers for the 2015 Summer League, then signing with San Antonio his father's favorite team and appearing in three 2015-16 preseason games, before being waived and picked up by the Spurs D League (now G League) affiliate, the Austin Spurs. Former Pacers guard Keifer Sykes, center, hosts a free youth camp at the Irsay Family YMCA in Indianapolis on April 30, 2022. [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. There's too many [coaches] calling me. Sykes became the only active player in the nation with 2,000+ points, 500+ assists, and 400+ rebounds. Sykes confirmed that another documentary about his life is on the way, and itll include another milestone from his first NBA season: A jersey swap with his former high school and college teammate, Alfonzo McKinnie (a distant cousin of the aforementioned Rashad McKinnie). Keifer's parents met when fate played a chord. For now, the per diem pays for diapers. 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. 6-keys: media/spln/collegebasketball/reg/free/stories, at Sykes set a conference record as he was named the Horizon League player of the week thirteen times over his career. Follow IndyStar Pacers beat writer James Boyd on Twitter: @RomeovilleKid. 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. She deserves this more than anybody. (Without prompt, Sykes publicly defended his coach throughout the ordeal.). "You can hear him in the stands. I wanted to wait a few days," Bell said. 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. The unexpected death came a month removed from the end of Keifer's freshman year. [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. 'You don't know who this is?'". 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. You go to South Korea and thats a whole different culture, Sykes said. Keifer Jerail Sykes, born Dec. 30, 1993, is the last child in his family. I told them, 'Don't have any babies. And for him to do that, it was just so overwhelming. "I was speechless," he said. He still gets frazzled thinking back to cutting KJ's umbilical cord, which he hesitantly failed to prune on first attempt, and only succeeded on the second snip under the loving demands of his father that he cut his son's cord. Sykes grew up on southeast side of Chicago, on East 67th Street and South Cregier, in a project apartment complex. The game-winner capped. He's brand new to this game. But mom? We treat him as one of us. "One time I asked him, and he didn't know. 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. . 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. Stephen A.: Lakers won't advance beyond play-in without LeBron. The shoes were squeaking, the coaches were yelling and the kids were smiling. The journeyman said it was disheartening to come within arm's reach of his NBA dream again, but he didnt stay down for long. Chicago's Keifer Sykes soaking in his moment after TBT winner and NBA contract with Pacers By Scott Powers Aug 5, 2021 1 Daniel Poneman isn't sure why exactly he hadn't revealed Keifer. So all of this has been more than me. 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. We had nothing, man. Hows your team doing? he asked another. I didnt go somewhere that eased me into it. 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. I gowith different guys. "I walk in the door, my parents are sitting at the table. Lisa runs an out-of-home daycare operation. "The sacrifices she made, man. Its been an overflow. I want the kid around. Keifer Sykes was born in Chicago, Illinois. Because a lot of people dont even know the half of what it took for me to be here. After a game, win or lose, I walk up to him and he's just laughing. When he's running around, jumping, having fun, I can't do nothing but laugh. "And when the baby came out, man, it was so cool to be part of that atmosphere," Freeman said. So I want to be thatvoice for them, and I'm happy to be in this position.". [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, 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. Keifer Sykes was born on December 30, 1993. He's played professionally inAustralia, China, Greece, Italy, South Korea and Turkey, all with the hopes of one day returning stateside and suiting up in the NBA. And I was just like, OK, Imma kill, because if you dont do your thing, youre out.. 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. Branden does not carry his father's last name. Sykes said having his contract guaranteed through the end of the season is "the highlight of my professional career," and he's thrilled that his 6-year-old daughter, Kennedi, and 11-year-old. Sykes joined the Pacers in late December after the team released reserve point guard Brad Wanamaker. NBA News. And now, when he's not escaping for trips to be with dad at Green Bay, KJ practically lives with his grandmother. One team has a player with two children born from two women three months apart. We come from poverty. "He's absolutely like his dad," Lisa Sykes said of her youngest. Come August, Keifer will be three months removed from college. 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. "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. The two met in middle school in Louisiana, and remained close friends until things turned romantic midway through high school. He posted a picture carrying her and wrote a beautiful heartfelt message. She thought he had dropped something or whatever. Both anticipated that their contracts would be guaranteed through the end of the seasonFriday, and McKinnie was retained, too. After shining with the Austin Spurs throughout the 2015-16 campaign, Sykes joined the Warriors for the 2016 Summer League, but he wasnt picked up by Golden State or another franchise ahead of the season. written on it in white letters, didnt hesitate before handing the kid his phone and obliging. Even when I was younger, he would just always affirm my greatness, Sykes said. On 5 August 2021, he also struck a deal with the NBA team, Indiana Pacers. I was afraid to tell my mom.". Theres a lot of different rules over there. Like Sykes, he opted not to turn pro early despite having a child to feed. One team has a father who's a leading scorer with a child who attends every home game but did not want to bring extra attention to the player or the program. 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. 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After a successful college career, Sykesplayed the 2015 NBA Summer Leaguewith the Cleveland Cavaliers. "She's the key to being married, to being a dad. The mother, who Kedren has known since middle school, lives in Johnson's hometown of Lewisburg, Tennessee. Wardle answered his phone that afternoon to hear the mother of his talented newcomer crying on the other line. I can't describe how gracious God has been toward us. She's long had a keen love for caring for the young, something as immediately evident in Keifer as his flaring athleticism. A young man will ask his boy about his father. However, Wanamaker struggled in the 22 games he appeared in, averaging 3.5 points on 36.1% . "I was on thetraining table. "I didn't want to do it. On April 5, the 5-11 guard was autographing mini basketballs and. Suddenly he was holding ice chips and helping her breathe through the birth. 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. In college, Keifer Sykes wrote RIP DAD on his socks, and if there's room, he'll write that same message on his sneakers so his father is always with him on the court. The craziest thing about this is that today is (Jan. 15), so today is the first time Ive seen an NBA check, Sykes said. His father taught him and told him about becoming a boy to a man, Lisa Sykes said. The 4 year old sat behind Green Bay's bench, in section 115, watching his dad make history last Thursday. According to Pacers teammate and Wisconsin native Tyrese Haliburton, Sykes is a GB legend, and fellow teammate Malcolm Brogdon had the chance to see that legend in the making during college. 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. 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. The consent submitted will only be used for data processing originating from this website. He was named first team All-Horizon League.[6]. 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. 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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. Sykes was still at Wisconsin Green-Bay when the shooting happened and came to visit Harrington shortly afterward. Aubrey was born at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 24. SMU sophomore Keith Frazier, who's been suspended for the season, is a dad to a boy who's nearly 3 years old. College basketball rosters across the country are dotted with young dads. "I don't ever want to go through that as a head coach again," Wardle said. Until she did. Continue with Recommended Cookies. 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. Keifer Jerail Sykes, born Dec. 30, 1993, is the last child in his family. 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 listens. The Pacers had Sykes and Wanamaker in training camp and kept the veteran Wanamaker when the season began. 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. "I do not want to go pro overseas," he said. Its all demonstrated in the documentary, Carlisle said after the game. The drive was like three hours and I had been on the same trip probably 15 times, but this time it just felt so different. Gathers' teammate, Al Freeman? "(My mom) put it together after the fact," Sykes said. I was sleeping, Sykes said. "The milk is spilt all over the place," she recalled saying. Having seen each other from afar in previous years, they met again, of all places, in an ER when she was 23. You could call this, The Keifer Effect, McKinnie said. INDIANAPOLIS Keifer Sykes knew the Pacers' season was ending. Assistant coach Jenny Boucek brokethe news. in the Turkish TBL, posting 22.4 points, 3.7 rebounds and 4.8 assists per game. 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. At Marshall, we were a basketball powerhouse, and it was a Chicago public school. "It was a surreal moment," Bell said of watching his son be born. He knows all about long drives on weekends to steal time with a child. 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. Sometimes when he's here and he's with KJ, I'm like, 'Oh my god,he's just like him'. I lost like 40 or 50 grand.". We both were really scared. They have a hierarchy. Sykes and the mother of his child broke up when he was 17, when he left for college. A family of seven crammed into a two-bedroom place, where they lived until Sykes got to high school. 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. This summer, there was a murder near the house where Keifer Jr. lives with. I do a lot of camps (in my hometown). 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. The two began dating and created a family out of wedlock. I went to basketball for free college. Turning 5 will be the milestone. One afternoon Keifer was on the green line, headed back home, when he got a call. "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. Like Freeman, Johnson's been a father for only a few weeks. The 28-year-old doesnt remember the last conversation he had with his dad because he never expected it to be the final one. 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. Sykes made his second and third career starts against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden and Nets at Gainbridge Fieldhouse on Jan. 4 and 5, scoring 22 and 18 points, respectively, with Mitchell and Co. cheering from Australia. They say, 'You don't know what it's like to be on food stamps,' and I say, 'I've been through it.'". She lives more than 250 miles away, in Iowa, with her mother. "We were a stage for him to perform on. I was charging it. I was the first person to see him, which was pretty cool.". Everything was going so fast.". He'll want to turn to ESPN and watch a basketball game. His players have brought their children over for playdates with Ray's son, who was born in 2013. 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. Go to college, live your life. His camp is having trouble getting them admitted into the road arenas. [24], On September 13, 2020, Sykes signed with Trk Telekom B.K. She's been a tremendous help to our players and our players' girlfriends. They last shared space together in 2012 -- at Keifer's father's funeral. Lisa was there with her cancer-stricken mother; James was there tending to his niece after she'd been assaulted in a domestic dispute. Keifer Sykes' 3-pointer wins TBT for Boeheim's Army. NBA News. He'll do it if it becomes absolutely mandatory, but for now, he refuses to leave KJ. Waiting. Keifer Sykes, Indiana Pacers As a small guard playing in a big city, Sykes was consistently underappreciated and underranked. Sykes was waived by the Pacers on Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Athletic reports. The plan is for mother and child to pack up and go with. And if you got children, I got your childrens back because youre doing something positive.. I thought I was going to pass out, but I stayed strong. Sykes studied at Marshall High School, where he started playing basketball. The biggest help to me is my wife. I shot that wing 3 against the Bulls,I air-balled. KJ will look up to his dad. He admits now it was a lot to go through. Sykes signed with Scandone Avellino of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A on August 7, 2018.[21]. [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. His daughter Zarah has just turned six years old on 22 September 2021. 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 see my daughter come out to the world.". Keifer Jerail Sykes (born December 30, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the Motor City Cruise of the NBA G League. The coaching staff awoke to find out the player was more than a thousand miles away and quit the team without telling anyone. 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