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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas freshman Joel Embiid is entering the NBA draft after a breakthrough season that ended with a stress fracture in his back that kept the 7-footer out of the NCAA tournament. Embiid had been mulling whether to return for his sophomore season for weeks. He said during a news conference Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse that he reached his decision Sunday. "I just want to thank the coaching staff, my teammates, the fans, my mentor, everybody that has helped me through my journey," said Embiid, who was accompanied by coach Bill Self. Embiid, who some believe could go first overall, said he discussed his decision with Self, his family and the Timberwolves Luc Mbah a Moute, a fellow Cameroonian who discovered Embiid at one of his camps and helped bring him to the U.S. when he was in high school. "Hakeem Olajuwon called me and I talked to him a little bit. I talked to Luc, my mentor. I talked to Nicolas Batum from the Portland Trail Blazers," Embiid said. "They didnt tell me what to do, they just gave me the advantages and disadvantages." Embiid, who grew up playing soccer and volleyball, only decided to pursue basketball a few years ago. He started to blossom as a senior at The Rock School and ultimately chose to attend Kansas, where he arrived with less fanfare than fellow freshmen Andrew Wiggins and Wayne Selden. In many ways, Embiid out-performed both of them, averaging 11.2 points and 8.1 rebounds while blocking 72 shots and earning Big 12 defensive player of the year honours. "I dont think anybody could say Jo was making a poor decision by entering the draft," Self said. "Under almost all circumstances this would be the obvious choice to make. The thing with Jo, what he was weighing was hes still so young in the sport." Still young, period. And that youthful exuberance endeared him to Kansas fans. "I really love this place. The fans are crazy, just watching them before every game," he said. "For me, it means a lot that they showed me nothing but love. Ill miss this place." Embiid hurt his back while landing awkwardly during a game late in the season, and missed the Jayhawks final two regular-season games and the Big 12 tournament. He also missed a victory over Eastern Kentucky and a season-ending loss to Stanford in the NCAA tournament, after which he said that he would have been able to play had Kansas advanced to the second weekend. "My back is fine," Embiid said Wednesday. "Im close to being 100 per cent." Even though he is still raw, many projects have Embiid joining Wiggins in going among the first three picks in the June draft. Embiids natural athleticism, court savvy and an ability to hit mid-range jumpers have made scouts salivate all season. "I think its going to be hard. I think Jos in for a fight. But I think its going to be a fun fight," Self said. "The jump from college to the NBA is not quite as easy as what a lot of people portray it to be. Just because youre drafted high doesnt mean youre necessarily ready to play. Jos goal obviously is not only to be drafted high but be a big-time player." Self has already signed two five-star prospects for next season in Kelly Oubre, a talented swingman who should help fill Wiggins shoes, and Cliff Alexander, a 6-foot-8 forward from Chicago and the Naismith high school player of the year. The question now is whether another five-star prospect, Myles Turner, will join them in Lawrence. The 6-11 centre from Euless, Texas, is expected to pick among Kansas, Duke and several other schools, but has said he was waiting on Embiids decision before choosing his school. Alexander tweeted at Turner to sign with Kansas shortly after Embiids announcement. Either way, the newcomers will join a team that returns three starters who helped Kansas win its 10th straight Big 12 title and earned a No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. 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Fake Yeezy Boost 350 V3 . PAUL, Minn. Wholesale Fake Yeezys . Henry, who missed three games with a knee injury, was charged with a handball in the penalty area in the 82nd minute as he went to block a strike from Patrick Mullins. On the ensuing penalty kick, Lee Nguyen picked up his fourth goal of the season, giving the Revolution a 2-1 win Saturday afternoon.There is an often spoken quote from journalists, players and cricket fans that we dont want to go back to how things were in the 90s. If Ive heard it once, Ive heard it a hundred times, says Mark Butcher. Indeed, it was that which inspired him to begun work on the England In The 90s documentary which is available to watch On Demand now and at 10pm on Tuesday on Sky Sports 1.I thought to myself OK, well lets take a step back and find out just how bad they were or whether they were as bad as people remember them to be, explains Butcher. There was also a part of it that a lot of the guys that work for Sky, who work in commentary and cricket media, a lot of them are from that period. A lot of the bigger names and big players from that era are people that cricket fans remember with a lot of fondness, for whatever reason.The whole thing just came together and struck me as something that people would be interested in seeing. Australia became the dominant side during the 90s For all that the 1990s are often portrayed as a decade of struggle and disappointment for England, Butcher insists that there was far more to it than that.I had an idea of the story I was trying to tell, he says. The easiest thing in the world to have done would have been to have looked over it all and said the players are useless, the teams were hopeless, nobody had any idea what they were doing and hence its a decade that everybody thinks should be consigned to the dustbin. England went from trying to be as professional and forward-thinking as possible under Graham Gooch and Micky Stewart to kind of losing their way. Mark Butcher I knew, having started my career at the beginning of the decade that there was a lot more to it than that and a lot of the things that we see implemented today in the England team are things that people wanted back then but as it often the way in English sport, English cricket, it took a long time for those things to come to fruition.It took a lot of heartache and a lot of poor results and a lot of disasters for everyone to finally understand that that more professional approach that we have now was required.Despite that, and while there were highlights such as reaching the 1992 World Cupp final and an impressive 2-1 Test series victory over South Africa in 1998, Butcher admits that at times, chaos reigned.ddddddddddddWest Indies were still just about top dog at the beginning of the decade, he adds. Pakistan were a real force to be reckoned with - they had some extraordinary cricketers in their side - and won the World Cup at the beginning.Australia then wrestled the No 1 crown from the West Indies in an epic series at home and in the midst of all that England went from trying to be as professional and forward-thinking as possible under Graham Gooch and Micky Stewart to kind of losing their way, or losing that single strand of vision that was going to take things forward.They fell back on themselves, got to the top of the hill and fell off the other side very quickly, it was pretty chaotic. Every time things looked as if they were getting better they very, very quickly took a turn for the worse.While success was often in short supply, there was undoubted talent in the England side. Mark Ramprakash was one of a number of talented England batsmen in the 90s One of the main points was that there were a lot of guys who played in that era who were very, very fine players, the likes of Graeme Hick and Mark Ramprakash and their career flights kind of summed up the team in a way, their story was the teams story, Butcher explains.People who were heavy, heavy run scorers, the best and brightest in county cricket but for one reason or another things didnt quite work out for them as they ought to have done in the international arena.Ramps was fantastic, very open, very honest and his story and those of many other players throughout the time who came in and out of the side, would have been relatively similar in terms of experience. Theres a story to be told, theres a real narrative to it and its not a hatchet job on the people involved by any means. Raymond Illingworth was a big name in it, Athers was captain for most of the decade, Alec Stewart was captain for a very short time and then was sacked and we finish up with being the worst team in the world at the very end of it.The way we tried to put it together was so that it had a real kind of pace to it as well, a modern way of telling an old story I suppose.Watch England In The 90s On Demand, or at 10pm on Sky Sports 1 HD on Tuesday. Also See: Watch England in the 90s Mark Butcher ' ' '