University of Maryland basketball player Choi Jin-Soo is doing what many college basketball players have done previously and that is leave school to go professional.  Choi Jin-Soo is entering the NBA…. uh, no.  Correction: He’s leaving an NCAA Division 1 basketball program from one of the elite conferences (ACC) to play in the ultra-competitive professional league of the Korean Basketball League (KBL).  That’s just a notch above the Korean church summer leagues that do fund raisers.  He cited the difficulties of studying and playing basketball.  I don’t know what his major was but he could’ve chosen what many solid student-athletes excel in and that’s the ever popular “communications” major.

“It is really hard to do both ― play basketball and study,” Choi told Korean basketball magazine Jump Ball.
“Studying causes me a lot of stress. I only want to play basketball, I don’t want to have to think about studying,” added Choi.

Good luck Choi Jin-Soo.  You’ll be missed at Maryland.  You could have been the second Korean person to play in the NBA.

Not really, but Korean American Tony Atkins got drafted into the KBL.  Atkins played at Georgia Tech, an ACC powerhouse.