Kyle Filipowskis NBA draft fall comes with allegations of perplexing family backstory

Kyle Filipowski’s drop to the second round in this year’s draft comes with a bit of a twist as NBA teams were reportedly hesitant over some off-court concerns surrounding the former Duke star.The peculiar developments and allegations came to light Thursday ahead of the second day of the draft after Filipowski had fallen out of the first round, which confused some experts. Filipowski was eventually selected with the 32nd overall pick by the Jazz. But ESPN’s Jonathan Givony reported both on “The Lowe Post” podcast and on “NBA Today” that teams had been “talking about” the age gap between Filipowski and his girlfriend, Caitlin Hutchison, and why he was allegedly estranged from his family. While Givony questioned why that would ultimately impact a team’s decision to select him or not — calling it “nonsense” during the podcast appearance — the ESPN draft reporter added to the narrative to the discourse surrounding Filipowski. “NBA teams are talking about the fact that they had question marks about his girlfriend being so much older than him, why was he estranged from his family because of this whole situation,” Givony said on “NBA Today.” “He apparently doesn’t talk to his parents or his brother and It’s a very, very odd situation.I personally don’t understand why it would cause him to drop like this into the second round.“There are no questions about his character, but NBA teams are talking about his nerves and his workouts weren’t great.

And when they asked him about the situation in interviews the answers they got weren’t satisfactory for them.”But the story didn’t stop there, as a person purporting to be Filipowski’s brother and another X account claiming to be his mother made allegations that the forward’s girlfriend had been “grooming” him and that Hutchison had “forced” Filipowski to cut off his family two years ago. Both accounts had alleged this had been an ongoing issue and the account clai...