NBA Rookies 2014: Andrew Wiggins Doesn’t Care What LeBron Thinks Of Him! The King Never Talked To The First Overall Pick!

Andrew Wiggins did not have a rosy start on his NBA Rookie season. Being the first overall pick, trade rumors would have been the least of your worries. But Wiggins was thrust into a very rare and complicated situation.

There is no doubt that everything that went down with the Cleveland Cavaliers trade for Kevin Love was instigated by LeBron James. Nothing makes it more obvious than the fact that James never even talked or reached out to the 19 year-old.

However, Rob Fulford, Wiggins' high school coach at Huntington Prep in West Virginia would be the first to remind us not to feel sorry for his protégé. He told nba.com:

"Andrew is such a good kid; he's just a classy kid, very humble, very respectful. 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."

Those are strong words, so Fulford elaborates:

"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. 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."

This was also endorsed by Andrew Wiggins college coach at Kansas, Bill Self: "Even though, in a weird way, everybody would love the opportunity to play with LeBron because you're guaranteed winning, for the longevity of his career, he needs to develop that mindset to be the guy for him to be great. And I think being in Minnesota will help him do that."

"He's going to have more space to work with. And he's extremely ... I won't say he's impossible to guard in space, but he's close to it."

 "I don't think there's any question he'll have a great rookie season. He's groomed for this. In college he got better the year he was there, but he'll be a better NBA player than he was a college player, and he was an All-American at Kansas, so sky's the limit for him."

"It's one of those things, him being on a team where it's kind of really going to be his, I think, is a good thing for him."