James Ulis said that, sometime in the second or third grade, Tyler Ulis was given an assignment to write about his parents and what they do for a living. And when Tyler wrote it, he took the liberty to also include what he planned to do for work once he grew up. He wrote that he would one day play in the NBA.
Tyler said the teachers always told him he needed to pick something else because it’s too hard to get to the NBA, which made him wonder why they never said the same to his classmates who aspired to be doctors and lawyers.