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The former 28-year-old Lawrence Central High School star and Virginia All-American was ostensibly in Indy on a recruiting trip, but he brought his wife Alexa — also from Indy — and his two sons with him so the oldest could celebrate his fourth birthday with all his grandparents, aunts and uncles.

But that Sunday the 21st, Guy played in a 3-on-3 event at Arsenal Tech High School organized by The Next Chapter, which turns 1-on-1 and 3-on-3 basketball into social media content. While Guy was there he spoke with Johnny Carpenter, a newly-hired Pacers assistant coach who was an assistant at Virginia when Guy played there and Carpenter asked Guy if he wanted to play again. The next day a 40-second video of Guy's play at The Next Chapter went, picking up millions of views and the Pacers called him to ask if he'd be interested in an Exhibit 10 contract. That would effectively mean playing for the G League's Noblesville Boom and leaving his job at Nevada before his first season, but it was an easy decision. By Wednesday, Sept. 24 he'd agreed to terms.

"They were like, 'Are you interested in an E-10?'" Guy said by phone Thursday. "I said, 'Hell yeah, I'm interested.'"

"The goal is to make the roster," Guy said. "I'm not an idiot. I don't know if that's in the cards right now, but I think after I get my feet under me and play for the Boom and help establish a winning culture and a fun atmosphere there that I could make those things happen down the road."

Guy retired because he had come to believe that his door to returning to the NBA was closed

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"I wouldn't change anything and I had a great freaking career up until this point," Guy said. "I loved every second of pretty much all of it. … But my last year overseas, I was in Greece and Spain in the same year. My family was not with me. I missed the birth of my second son. There was a lot of things that were playing into it. I needed a break. There's a lot of other things I want to do in this life aside from basketball and I thought that was a good time to chase those things and be around my family a little bit more. Coaching was the easiest transition."

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  4. Let’s frame this correctly, his former college coach saw him and got him an offer. If that guy wasn’t with the Pacers or there no way he gets this contract

  8. Outside of the NBA, he’s the best player I’ve seen play in person.

    It was on this same exact court in high school sectionals.

  9. Damn Rob Colon been cooking for awhile and blowing up in the YT scene why couldn’t he get a shot too?

  11. How does retirement work in the NBA?

    If you retire, is it that easy & quick to fill out paperwork to reinstate yourself to be eligible for a contract?

  21. This is from a YouTuber basketball league called next chapter. Maybe he was on a recruiting trip and got invited to play while in the area but the title seems to imply these clips are during the recruitment part of his trip.

  26. The Next Chapter getting posted in r/nba is fire.

    These guys can really play.

  29. I was on the jv team for one of the schools in the same high school conference as him. I recall a teammate saying that he was gonna “make it to the league”. I honestly didn’t think so, I said “all he does it shoot”. I feel like I was kinda correct, except he really was *that good* at shooting.

  34. I was at a Heat Rockets game in Houston and this guy went absolutely nuts. Good for him for getting another shot.

  35. I went to UVA, and Kyle Guy was instrumental in winning the school’s first championship in 2019. Dude was an incredible shot creator and guard, but he was unfortunately too small to play starter minutes in the NBA.

    Hope he’s able to make it back.

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