While Andrew Wiggins has been very PC and adult like with his responses regarding the Cavaliers situation, his former coaches have no filter.
Wiggins college coach, Bill Self first ignited things by saying Andrew wanted to be traded and did not want to be LeBron James sidekick. Now Wiggins high school coach has a few words regarding Wiggins and LeBron as well.
A sad end to a long, strange summer for Wiggins? More like an eagerly anticipated beginning, says Rob Fulford, Wiggins’ high school coach at Huntington Prep in West Virginia.
“Andrew is such a good kid; he’s just a classy kid, very humble, very respectful,” Fulford, now an assistant at Missouri, told NBA.com this week. “I think this whole process with the trade rumors, he could care less. That kid just wants to play basketball. The fact that LeBron never reached out to him, Andrew could care less what LeBron James thinks of him.” …
“You have to understand, this kid, the media circus was around from the beginning when he got here in August of his junior year in high school until he left Huntington in May of his senior year after graduation,” Fulford said. “It was just a circus. I think it prepared him for what was going to happen at Kansas and even now he’s used to it, and I think he’s handled it really well. With the parents that he has, both have been professional athletes, I think it helped that he’s been kind of groomed in that manner.”
Wiggins has a potentially great career ahead of him and the Timberwolves have put together a nice young team with him, Anthony Bennett, Thaddeus Young and first round draft pick Zach LaVine all joining Ricky Rubio. Hopefully his former coach is right and Wiggins puts this circus behind him and prepares for something greater.
