Andre Drummond’s Brave New World

By On 2012/06/27 · 13 Comments

NEW YORK – I asked Andre Drummond today if he liked being a celebrity.

“I don’t consider myself a celebrity,” he said. “I don’t think like I am bigger than somebody else, I am just a human being like you or anybody else.”

Of course, Drummond, just 18, is already a celebrity and is about to become a much larger one, as an NBA team in a significant market will be drafting him Thursday night. His world is about to change.

He says he has a “tight circle.” … Nobody gets in, strangers are kept at arm’s length. His mother, able to retire now, and younger sister will be with him wherever he relocates. He has no wish list of things to go out and splurge on, but said he plans to save his money.

Drummond sounds rather  grounded, considering he could make up to $3.8 million in his first year, $8 million in his first two years if the Bobcats draft him No. 2. Even if he falls all the way to the Pistons at No.9, the lowest projection out there, he’ll be guaranteed to make millions, plural, over the next two years.

“How many 18-year-olds are going to make millions of dollars?” he asked. “It’s a nerve-wracking responsibility.”

Drummond is far from a finished product on the court, and the teams that draft him may have to weight several years before he becomes the player they hope he will. He may never get there. But his personality can only be a plus. Drummond mixed so easily with the Harlem kids he visited and worked with on Wednesday. He is easy to like. Anyone at UConn, not just on his own team but the women’s team and other athletes, will tell you that.

There’s no way of knowing what will happen when a young man Andre Drummond’s age is thrust into the limelight and paid enough money to buy anything he wants. Many struggle to handle it. But from my time around him, I think the kid’s head is on straight and he will handle this part of  his new world quite well.

 
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13 Responses to Andre Drummond’s Brave New World

  1. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/06/27 at 10:48 pm

    Look at our Beat Reporter Dom growing up right in front of Sven’s eyes. You are actually talking to people this week and writing stories too. Dom’s on the cusp of turning himself into a solid “C+” student.

    Sven and Mrs. Dom are very pleased with your improved efforts this week. Apparently so is some strange guy from Bangkok and jltechno. If I were you, I’d be more concerned with keeping Sven and Mrs. Dom happy though. Sven thinks the other two guys are flash in the pans…

    • Mark says:
      2012/06/28 at 7:42 am

      dude, do you get wifi in your mom’s basement?

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  2. Uconnfan says:
    2012/06/28 at 8:53 am

    Drummond is far from a finished product on the court, and the teams that draft him may have to weight several years before he becomes the player they hope he will.

    Really….Weight…

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  3. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/06/28 at 11:11 am

    Mark, if you are looking for a place to stay because you are down on your luck, Sven will open the doors to his home to you. It’s a little rainy today in Bjuroklubb.

    However, if you are looking to hit on Sven’s mom and show her pictures from your “art collection” on the computer, Sven’s not too comfortable with that idea and thinks that you probably should be ashamed. Sven’s mom doesn’t go for that kind of hanky panky.

    And to answer your question, why yes, Sven’s basement does have wifi but Sven’s mom’s does not.

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  4. fishpaw31 says:
    2012/06/28 at 1:46 pm

    Even though Uconnfan has already pointed this out…it’s just too
    outrageous a mistake from someone who is supposed to be a professional writer: the word you want is WAIT, not ‘weight’

    Please set a better example for Courant readers, and try to appear educated.

    And finally, Congratulations to Andre & his family. I can’t wait to watch the draft tonight!

  5. HuskyFan says:
    2012/06/29 at 4:04 am

    I like your style, Sven. Maybe I’ll crash in your basement the next time I’m in Sverige.

    Sadly, this is what we’ve come to expect from Dom these days. “Weight” has a couple extra letters in it so one would think the lazy hack would just spell the shorter word. Oh well.

    I’m hoping for the best for Drummond. He’ll obviously need to develop an offensive game, but I think he will eventually. In the meantime, he should be able to contribute a bit with defense and rebounding.

  6. Sven Svenson says:
    2012/06/29 at 10:35 am

    Sven appreciates your support HuskyFan.

    Sven thinks the spelling mistakes speaks to a new, ridiculous Courant crowd sourcing model of news gathering and editing. Why write a story when you can just repost something already written by someone else? Why not just settle for a Tweet instead? Sven thinks that writing in 140 characters rots the brain and has made Dom very, very lazy. His sausage like fingers get tired once they’ve crossed over 140 characters and then even his ability to cut and paste becomes iffy. To be fair to Twitter, Dom’s brain not too good to begin with…

    While Sven focuses his attention on Men’s Basketball because of his fondness for Mrs. Dom’s bundt cake, Sven sees dozens of grammatical and proof reading errors in the Courant everyday. Glaring errors that suggest no one ever proof reads a word printed on the web.

    It appears that by barely writing at all, Dom’s adopted the approach that he is less likely to make such errors. Sadly even by doing less, Dom’s writing is still right around the Medoza line.

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