Tyler Sanborn

Tyler Sanborn

Sanford is a 6'10 centre out of Guilford College, a Division 3 school in North Carolina. He was the Division 3 player of the year last season, and here's a video about that. Nice drop-step.

(Incidentally; Ben Strong, the man spoken about at length in the video, is a former Guilford centre who was also the D3 Player of the Year in 2007. He averaged 25/12/2 in his senior season, and now plays for Maccabi Haifa in Israel. He averaged 3.3ppg, 2.4rpg and 0.5apg for a team perhaps now wondering if it might have been a bit generous to use an import spot on a D3 player. The feel-good stories are nice, but D3 really doesn't produce a lot of significant pros. Mind you, Maccabi Haifa were also the team that Jeremy Tyler played for last year, and Strong outperformed Tyler in every statistical category. So he's got that going for him.)

It's very difficult to find out anything about Sanborn, or even Guilford; a Google search for "Guildford Sanborn" reveals the fourth result to be a research paper from a Mr Guilford D. Sanborn entitled "Letters upon the effects of alcohol as a preventive to tubercular formations and desposits", which is a sentence I'd never expected to say. That said, in all likelihood, information about Tyler Sanborn may not need to be found. To be blunt, the odds are against him.

Only eight players have ever played in the NBA when coming out of Division 3 schools; Michael Harper, Derrick Rowland, Clinton Wheeler, Bob McCann, Greg Grant, Devean George, Andy Panko (whose NBA career lasted 1 minute) and Horace Jenkins. Will Tyler Sanborn be the ninth? Probably not. Particularly not on the two time defending NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers team. But well played to him for even being here.