Wendell Carter Jr. gets to fulfill lifelong ambition playing in NBA
NEW YORK - When Wendell Carter Jr. was a third-grader in Georgia, he was given a universal homework assignment: What do you want to be when you grow up?
In Carter's case, he was asked to make a poster. Wendell's mother, Kylia, remembered her son's answer: He aspired to be a "professional basketball player" rather than specifying the NBA. Kylia didn't think the phrasing was accidental. Wendell Sr. had played professionally overseas but never made it to the NBA.
But there was something more: Carter already seemed to understand that basketball could be a job rather than just a game.
"When he got home and he was telling us about it," Kylia said, "I told him that basketball will take care of itself. We are going to
