There are a lot of people talking for Andrew Wiggins, but Wiggins himself has handle the entire process with class. To me that is a positive sign for his future. You have to learn to handle adversity to be an elite athlete.
Does that mean he is going to be a superstar with the T-Wolves? No, but at least we know he can handle things when they don’t go his way.
Here is what his HS school coach had to say about the situation via NBA.com.
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.”
The coach makes a good point that since High School he has been in the spotlight. In my personal opinion, he will be a good not great player, but I hope he proves me wrong.