High School sophomore Aquille Carr offered $750k to play in Europe

 

ESPN Aquille Carr Profile

More often than not, high school sophomores who are 5'7", 145 pounds are the kids that get picked on.  They're the ones who are shoved into lockers by the goon football players.  They're trying out for quiz bowl.  They're pretty much Screech Powers.  Not Aquille Carr.  He's Allen Iverson in a smaller package (which is hard to do because Iverson played at 6'0", 165.

Aquille Carr , of Patterson (MD) High School has been offered $750,000 to skip his junior and senior prom and head to Italy to play for Lottomatica Virtus Roma of the Italian League.  Carr just recently returned from Milan, Italy in which he played for a United States team.  It wouldn't be the first time that Lottomatica Virtus Roma tried to woo an American high schooler.  Milwaukee Bucks point guard Brandon Jennings chose to go to Italy instead of attending the University of Arizona.  Jennings was drafted one year later.

Carr, already 17 years old, could also be in line for an Under Armour shoe contract should be bolt overseas.  Under Armour has a deal with Jennings and is said to be looking for a new face on the European circuit.  Carr is no joke.  In a recent interview, Carr said that he will keep the offer in mind.  "I don't want to make my decision so fast.  But perhaps we might do that."  If you ask me Aquille (and I know you won't), I'd already be eating a plate of spaghetti made by a woman who talks way too loudly.  Take the money and run, kid.