Kyle Filipowski had an uninspiring summer season league debut Monday evening for the Jazz following a number of weeks of off-the-court drama that includes his fiancée, Caitlin Hutchison.
The previous Duke star failed to attain in 17 minutes, lacking all 4 of his pictures whereas grabbing 4 rebounds in Utah’s 97-95 win over Memphis.
Filipowski has been within the headlines since late June when he surprisingly fell within the 2024 NBA Draft to the second spherical, the place the Jazz chosen him with the thirty second choose.
A video circulated on social media exhibiting a despondent Filipowski being comforted by Hutchison within the hallways of Barclays Heart after not being drafted within the first spherical.
Particulars then emerged which painted the connection between the 2 as a possible purpose why groups handed on one of many higher faculty huge males within the 2024 NBA Draft.
ESPN’s Jonathan Givony famous that groups had questions concerning the age hole between the couple — Hutchison is 27, whereas Filipowski is 20 — and the way their relationship allegedly led to him slicing off his household, labeling it a “very, very odd scenario.”
“There are not any questions on his character, however NBA groups are speaking about his nerves and his exercises weren’t nice,” Givony stated on “NBA Immediately” final month. “And once they requested him concerning the scenario in interviews the solutions they acquired weren’t passable for them.”
Filipowski’s estranged household offered additional context, with accounts claiming to be his brother and his mom alleging Filipowski had been groomed and brainwashed by Hutchison.
Grooming is described as “the preparatory stage of kid sexual abuse and exploitation, usually undertaken to achieve the belief and/or compliance of the kid or younger individual and to determine secrecy and silence to keep away from disclosure,” in line with bravehearts.org/au.
The 2 first began courting in December 2021 when Hutchison was 25 and Flipowski was 18, in line with Web page Six.
“1. My brother is a sufferer and was sadly a ‘excellent’ pawn and goal for this lady’s lifelong scheme based mostly on his human traits and rising potential as a high-level prospect which began going down in 2019, precisely on the time when she started her pursuit of him,” Daniel Filipowski tweeted June 29.
Hutchison allegedly additionally “pressured” him to go away his household behind.
“She pressured him to chop us off from his life nearly two years in the past. Despatched us an electronic mail and all the pieces. Principally the official ‘goodbye letter,’” Daniel tweeted.
Hutchison has since made her Instagram personal following the allegations.
