Davidson’s Stephen Curry and North Carolina’s Ty Lawson and Wayne Ellington today joined a list of early-entry players that also includes Blake Griffin, Ricky Rubio, Hasheem Thabeet, Jordan Hill, James Harden, Jonny Flynn and other but still lacks a number of top players (Willie Warren, Ed Davis, Cole Aldrich and Greg Monroe among them) who sure look like they won’t enter the June draft by Sunday’s midnight declaration deadline.

That’s bad news, of course, for the Wolves. Their 18th and 28th overall picks would look a lot more enticing if such a large group of promising underclassmen weren’t apparently, and rather unexpectedly, headed back to school.

Also today, did you see a PREP PLAYER quit school and is turning pro. San Diego 6-11 high-school junior Jeremy Tyler says he’s leaving for Europe, like Brandon Jennings did last year but a year earlier than did Jennings, who chose Europe over his freshman season at Arizona.

Tyler is the first player to quit high school early to pursue his NBA path through Europe since the NBA passed that minimum-age rule starting with the 2006 draft. He had orally committed to play for Rick Pitino at Louisville in 2010.

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