Tyler Smith, whose pro basketball career included stints with the Hitachi Sunrockers and Link Tochigi Brex in the now-disbanded JBL, has published his first book, "Called for Traveling: My Nomadic Life Playing Pro Basketball around the World."
The entertaining 384-page tome, the subject of an upcoming Hoop Scoop column, was published in the fall.
Smith played 11 seasons of pro basketball in several far-flung locales, including Uruguay, the Netherlands and Thailand, before retiring in 2013.