Kyle Filipowski’s drop to the second spherical on this 12 months’s draft comes with a little bit of a twist as NBA groups had been reportedly hesitant over some off-court considerations surrounding the previous Duke star.
The peculiar developments and allegations got here to gentle Thursday forward of the second day of the draft after Filipowski had fallen out of the primary spherical, which confused some specialists.
Filipowski was finally chosen with the thirty second general decide by the Jazz.
However ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported each on “The Lowe Submit” podcast and on “NBA At the moment” that groups had been “speaking about” the age hole between Filipowski and his girlfriend, Caitlin Hutchison, and why he was allegedly estranged from his household.
Whereas Givony questioned why that might finally affect a crew’s choice to pick out him or not — calling it “nonsense” in the course of the podcast look — the ESPN draft reporter added to the narrative to the discourse surrounding Filipowski.
“NBA groups are speaking about the truth that they’d query marks about his girlfriend being a lot older than him, why was he estranged from his household due to this complete state of affairs,” Givony stated on “NBA At the moment.” “He apparently doesn’t discuss to his mother and father or his brother and It’s a really, very odd state of affairs. I personally don’t perceive why it could trigger him to drop like this into the second spherical.
“There aren’t any questions on his character, however NBA groups are speaking about his nerves and his exercises weren’t nice. And once they requested him concerning the state of affairs in interviews the solutions they acquired weren’t passable for them.”
However the story didn’t cease there, as an individual purporting to be Filipowski’s brother and one other X account claiming to be his mom made allegations that the ahead’s girlfriend had been “grooming” him and that Hutchison had “compelled” Filipowski to chop off his household two years in the past.
Each accounts had alleged this had been an ongoing concern and the account claiming to be his brother Daniel wrote that the story had been “pushed beneath the desk for almost two years now.”
Makes an attempt by The Submit to succeed in the particular person purporting to be Filipowski’s brother had been unsuccessful on Thursday.
Hutchison is reportedly 26 years outdated whereas Filipowski turns 21 later this 12 months, and the primary photograph of the 2 collectively on Hutchison’s Instagram was from Filipowski’s senior promenade in 2022.
Filipowski’s mother and father, David and Rebecca, each performed faculty basketball, in line with his bio on the Duke basketball web site, and he has three brothers, Daniel, Taylor and Matthew.
Further reporting by Dylan Svoboda
