As you may or may not have heard, high school "phenom" Jeremy Tyler (on the right) will be taking his talent to a place known as the holy land. More specifically, he will play for Avi Ashkenazi at Maccabi Haifa for a nice salary of 140,000 dollars (one year deal). Maccabi Haifa's basketball club, unlike it's soccer one, has no real history and made it back to the top league in Israel last year where it did well reaching the finals in the State Cup and League Finals. The best part of this whole thing is that he gets to team up with none other then, wait for it... not yet...but now: Davon Jefferson!
The same Davon Jefferson (on the right) that could not become academically eligible to play at UNLV so he enrolled at University of Second Choice (ironic), commonly known as University of Scandals and Crimes. This duo will surely comebine in the forward spots (though both are PF's but play along here), making what might be the dumbest frontlines in the history of international basketball. Tyler, a high school drop out from San Diego (where I will bet he never learned how to even spell SAT's), and Davon, who probably took the SAT's around as many times as Tyler's age (18) until he got the minimal score to make it to a "great" academic school. As an Israeli and an avid basketball fan, I cannot wait to see this pair in action. If I was a player on Hapoel Jerusalem, Galil-Elyon, or on Maccabi Tel-Aviv, I would simply trash talk by asking them the following: "What's larger? 2^2 or 2+2". This mathematically "challenging" query will clearly phase the aforementioned players and a turnover would soon happen. To be perfectly honest, I am sure that a 4th grader in Israel can speak English more properly than Davon or Jeremy, just google their names and read the horrible quotes! Should be a fun season in Israel, it's a shame I won't be there in person to witness the madness as Davon and Jeremy take on Maccabi Tel-Aviv and others.
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