Jamel Thomas

The prodigious success of Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett and LeBron James in making the leap directly from the hothouse world of high school basketball to the hallowed hardwood of the National Basketball Assn. has planted dreams of $100-million contracts in...

IT HAS BEEN eight months since Sebastian Telfair's debut on the big-time summer basketball scene. His play last July cemented his status at the top of his class nationally. Now another summer beckons. And with it come choices. His summer plans are a...

He could be at a movie theater, gym, restaurant or mall, and will be recognized and asked for an autograph. He has been featured in several magazines, including the cover of Slam in July, along with Ohio high school phenom LeBron James, a consensus...

Sebastian Telfair, the Lincoln High School point guard who is one of the most highly regarded and well-known prep basketball players in this year's senior class, is expected to announce that he will commit to the University of Louisville at a news...

What more can be said about Lincoln's finest? Ever since his freshman season he's been one of the most talked about players in PSAL basketball history. He's the cousin of former Lincoln star and current Knicks point guard Stephon Marbury and the...

The kid won't let you get to him. People ask that question all the time. They say, "Doesn't any of this bother you?" And the kid responds with one of those tremendous grins, exposing a dozen gleaming teeth and several inches of gumline, and he says,...

He made his entrance from stage left, wearing a pristine white sport coat, a pink button-down shirt and blue jeans. Sebastian Telfair stood at the epicenter of the city that bred him, in Times Square, at the ESPN Zone restaurant, and all around him the...

Now that Sebastian Telfair finally announced yesterday in Manhattan that he will enter the NBA draft and has signed a six-year endorsement deal with adidas, was it the right decision? Although some of the NBA's best players - Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant,...

Lincoln point guard Sebastian Telfair will declare his intention to enter June's NBA draft at a news conference early next week, according to a source. Telfair has already signed with an agent and also will sign a multiyear endorsement deal with one of...