Kyle Filipowski’s drop to the second spherical on this yr’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 consultants.
Filipowski was finally selected with the 32nd overall pick by the Jazz.
However ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported each on “The Lowe Post” podcast and on “NBA In the present day” 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 may finally affect a staff’s determination to pick out him or not — calling it “nonsense” throughout the podcast look — the ESPN draft reporter added to the narrative to the discourse surrounding Filipowski.
“NBA groups are speaking about the truth that that they had 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 said on “NBA Today.” “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 might 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 after 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 another X account claiming to be his mother 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 problem 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 Put up to succeed in the particular person purporting to be Filipowski’s brother had been unsuccessful on Thursday.
Hutchison is reportedly 26 years previous whereas Filipowski turns 21 later this yr, 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 school basketball, in keeping with his bio on the Duke basketball web site, and he has three brothers, Daniel, Taylor and Matthew.
Extra reporting by Dylan Svoboda
