Sacramento high school basketball star Josiah Turner will leave the school Wednesday, according team coach Derek Swafford.

"All his mom would say is that the family wants to go another way," Swafford told the Sacramento Bee. "She didn't say why, but the parting was amicable. There is no malice. We've got to let go, even though we still want him here."

Turner, a 6-foot-3 senior point guard, signed a letter of intent in November to attend Arizona.

He did not show up to play in Sac High's Metro Conference opener against Burbank on Friday.

Swafford said that Turner called the following morning and explained that he missed the game for "family reasons."