All right, earlier we shared Vincent Goodwill’s article about Wendell Carter Jr. and the main take away was the comments made by the Bulls’ rookie’s mom toward coach K at Duke.
Basically it boiled down to the Carters feeling that coach K kept the fact that Marvin Bagley III was going to reclassify and sign with the Duke in 2017, a year after Carter had committed to the school. Pretty much they were mad that Carter was promised to be the guy at Duke and then he had to take a back seat to Bagley.
You can read all about it here.
However, we have a twist to the story.
So, after the quotes were shared everywhere, there was a lot of criticism hurled at Carter and his mom for complaining about his time at Duke and feeling betrayed by coach K. One of the people who spoke out against Wendell and his mom was Dick Vitale.
SAD /sounds like @wendellcarter34 ‘s parents r envious of the fame of @MB3FIVE/they blame Coach K / / Ask @KingJames & @usabasketball what they think of Coach K @DukeMBB Carter’s should be PROUD he played for Coach K https://t.co/InoErrPmsj
— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) June 26, 2018
That struck a nerve with Carter, who responded to Vitale.
In the replies, Carter claims that his mom, Kylia, was misquoted in the story.
i don’t usually respond to things like this but mr. vitale … you are wrong. all love ! no jealousy and marvin and his family knows that. why are you trying to tear us down ?
— Wendell Carter Jr (@wendellcarter34) June 27, 2018
yes sir i did and i was there when she did this interview. the reporter clearly wanted more people to view the article because that is not what she said AT ALL
— Wendell Carter Jr (@wendellcarter34) June 27, 2018
Not really sure about that one, Wendell. I mean, all the quotes were taken out of context, or they were all made up? That seems hard to imagine, as Goodwill provided lots of in depth information in his article that didn’t just focus on what Carter’s mom had to say.
Here’s just one of the quotes from Kylia.
“My initial reaction, I was pissed,”
“And it wasn’t pissed because Marvin was coming. To be honest, I felt like that was information that was kept from us. It felt (shady), it felt like my baby was gonna get kicked to the curb. I felt like all of that.”
Again, you can read the whole story here.
