http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1213887957/bclid1372187581/bctid1370834853

someone please embed it

1/17/2008 1:26:44 PM

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/7684316

1/17/2008 1:27:34 PM

http://www.sebastiantelfair.com

1/17/2008 1:33:36 PM

does anyone remember about 7 years ago sports illustrated had a coverstory about some middle schooler who was supposed to be awesome and they said stuff like he'd be disappointed if he wasn't able to go straight to the nba?

i've been trying for a while to figure out who that kid was, but i can't find it

1/17/2008 4:30:08 PM

i remember you asking that before. i looked and couldn't find it

1/17/2008 4:31:31 PM

seven years ago + middle school sounds like it coulda been OJ Mayo

1/17/2008 4:34:30 PM

was it derrick caracter? i remember espn running a story about him pretty early in his career

1/17/2008 4:35:05 PM

Quote :

"During his seventh grade year in January 2002, Mayo was mentioned in Sports Illustrated and on CBS Sportsline.com. There were also full articles in The Courier-Journal (Louisville, Kentucky), the Huntington, West Virginia Herald-Dispatch and USA Today."

welp, there you go. i have no idea why i didn't check mayo earlier.

1/17/2008 4:39:16 PM

Quote :

"y Jeff Goodman, Special for USA TODAY FITCHBURG, Mass. — Not too long ago, Derrick Caracter — not Greg Oden — was the consensus No. 1 player in the high school boys basketball class of 2006. He was featured in Sports Illustrated, given the nickname "Baby Shaq" and pegged as a possible straight-to-the-NBA type."

1/17/2008 4:39:18 PM

He looks like a thug to me. We don't need any more thugs.

1/17/2008 4:48:40 PM

we do if they can ball out before they fall out.

1/17/2008 4:55:02 PM

Yeah good luck to any college team who tries to pick him up.

There for one year + thinks he's bigger than college basketball + believes he already knows everything there is to know about the game = no thank you.

1/17/2008 4:58:17 PM

are you basing this on anything other than that 2 minute video?

1/17/2008 5:00:10 PM

if pitino was willing to take his chances on telfair...

1/17/2008 5:00:18 PM

Only other person I can think of would be Demond Carter, who's balling out of control at... Baylor. Kid was amazing in HS, though.

http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/m-baskbl/mtt/carter_tweety00.html

1/17/2008 5:15:08 PM