Education
Haislip attended Marshall County High School in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
Haislip attended Marshall County High School in Lewisburg, Tennessee.
He rose to prominence while playing college basketball with the University of Tennessee from 1999 to 2002. After college, he played for several seasons in the National Basketball Association and the Euroleague. He is listed at 6 ft 10 in (208 m) and 230 pounds (100 kg).
Haislip was selected by the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire as the 13th pick of the 2002 National Basketball Association Draft.
During his rookie year Haislip was inserted into the starting line-up for the final nine games of the 2002-2003 National Basketball Association season. When the playoffs started he was relegated to the bench.
He remained a bench player with the Buckinghamshire for his first two seasons until being placed on waivers on November 4, 2004. He was signed by the Indiana Pacers during the 2004-2005 season in order to fill the team"s gap at power forward, due to the 15-game suspension of Jermaine O"Neal.
He started playing for Ülkerspor in the 2005-2006 season.
In March 2006, he left the team without authorization and returned to the United States due to "family issues", according to a teammate. He signed with Turkish Basketball League powerhouse Efes Pilsen in August 2006. Haislip returned to the United States. with Pilsen in October 2006, when the team played a pair of exhibition games against National Basketball Association teams.
Pilsen played the Denver Nuggets in Denver on October 11, and played the Golden State Warriors in Oakland on October 13.
Haislip scored 13 points and added 9 rebounds against the Warriors. On July 13, 2007, Haislip signed with the Spanish ACB club Unicaja Málaga.
Haislip was signed by the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association on July 8, 2009. He was waived by the Spurs on January 22, 2010, after appearing in ten games for them.
On January 24, 2010, Haislip signed with the Greek Basketball League powerhouse Panathinaikos.
He was released on April 16, 2010. In September 2010, he signed with the Spanish powerhouse Caja Laboral. In December 2010, Caja Laboral opened disciplinary proceedings against Haislip because he left the city without permission from the club
He was suspended without pay.
The contract was terminated by mutual consent on January 5, 2011. On January 13, 2011 he signed with the Guangdong Southern Tigers in China.
In December 2011, he signed with the Foshan Dralions. In March 2012, he signed a two-month contract with Champville South Carolina, and became the highest paid foreigner in the history of the Lebanese Basketball League.
Champville didn"t renew his contract the following year.
In September 2012, he joined the Dongguan Leopards of the Chinese Basketball Association for the 2012-2013 season. Foreign the next season he stayed in China but moved to Jiangsu Dragons. On November 24, 2014, Haislip signed a one-month deal with Club Africain of the Tunisian League.
On December 24, 2014, he signed with Eskişehir Basket of Turkey for the rest of the season.
In December 2015, he signed with Türk Telekom.