The Maccabi Haifa professional basketball team, the Israeli Premier League runner-up last season, announced today they have signed 6-foot-11, 260-pound San Diego High School star Jeremy Tyler for the 2009-10 season.

Tyler, 18, garnered national media attention when he announced in April that he would become the first American-born player to forgo his senior year of high school to play professional basketball overseas.
Tyler averaged 28.7 points during his junior year at San Diego High, leading his team to the CIF-San Diego Section Division I quarterfinals.
Tyler is expected to return to the United States when he becomes eligible for the 2011 N.B.A. Draft, where some see him as a top pick.

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