Carlos Curry is one of the most bizarre stories in sports this year. He left his college basketball team in the middle of the year and signed a professional contract in China.
It might be the first time that this has ever happened!
Curry was a former three-star recruit who began his college basketball career with two years at Ole Miss, including a redshirt year. He later went the JUCO route and spent the 2020/21 season at North Mississippi Community College before transferring to Georgia Southern.
This is where things get interesting. Curry played a pretty big role for the Eagles, especially last year.
- 2021/22 — 27 games played, two starts, 9.4 minutes per game
- 2022/23 — 32 games played, 26 starts, 22.1 minutes per game
Although Curry seemed to find a grove in year two with Georgia Southern, he entered the transfer portal after the season as a graduate transfer. Nothing came of his entry.
Curry stayed put in Atlanta and the 2023/24 season began with a similar pace. Curry made nine starts in 11 games and averaged 12.5 minutes in each appearance.
He last played on December 30. And then he disappeared.
Where did Curry go? China!
Curry is leaving college mid-season to go play professionally in Zhejiang. The Ningbo Rockets of the Chinese Basketball Association announced that they signed Curry to a contract earlier this week.
Isn’t that something? Curry played at three different schools from the fall of 2018 through the end of 2023 and then suddenly decided that he had played enough college basketball, left school over winter break, packed his bags and moved halfway across the world to play on the professional level.
It has been a wild journey for the 6-foot-11, 240-pound center and the new chapter of his career makes for one of the most interesting stories of the year!