Tyson Chandler shares his thoughts on whether or not high school players should be allowed to join the NBA. (via TheUndefeated)
Who will be the longest-tenured player in the NBA after Vince Carter retires at the end of the season?“I knew I was the last player from my draft. But I didn’t know I’ll be the longest tenured in the league. I didn’t know that,” Chandler told The Undefeated.
“My circumstances were tough. When I was sophomore and a junior, my family was homeless. I was staying from couch to couch. All of the cats there and even my little homies, everybody protected me. They were like, ‘You got a shot to make it out of here. We don’t. We can’t. We’re going to be here. So, you go ahead and you stay focused on what you focused on. We will make sure you don’t have no problems around here.
“At the time I was living with an uncle on the borderline of Compton and Long Beach. I was sleeping on his couch. The toughest thing was just really understanding where my family was at. There were two families in a three-bedroom house. They had one room as a couple, and their four kids were in the other room and my mom and my whole family was in one room.
“If I was to talk to the NBA draft class of 2020, I would say, ‘This is your profession. This is your business. You are coming into your professional career quicker than most people are. But the faster you understand and recognize that this is your profession and you take it seriously the same way anybody else who’s trying to grow in their career, the better you’ll do.’
“So, it just varies from athlete to athlete. You can’t put an age on it. I think we should be able to have the opportunity. I don’t like what’s going on in college, I think they’re stealing from players. They’re making millions of dollars off athletes. And then you see what happened to the kid in MemphisJames Harden of the Houston Rockets reacts on the bench at the end of the third quarter against the Atlanta Hawks at Toyota Center on Nov. 30, 2019, in Houston.
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