“No mistakes today,” Flip Saunders told Josh Selby after the Wizards’ predraft workout at Verizon Center on Monday — pretty good, except it was because the Kansas guard hadn’t played.
Sitting out with a pulled right quadriceps was a disappointment for the 6-foot-2 Baltimore native who spent his first two years of high school at DeMatha and calls the District his second home.
But Selby’s relationship with his former school — he finished back in Baltimore at Lake Clifton — isn’t a warm one.
“To be honest, I haven’t talked to anyone from DeMatha in quite a bit because I changed my phone number,” said Selby, who also got off to a frosty start at Kansas, where he was suspended for the first nine games and then struggled with a foot injury.
Like his relationship with DeMatha, Selby is honest about his disappointment with the Jayhawks and knows it’s the biggest question NBA teams want answered. He’s projected as a late first-round pick.
“They just want to see that the Josh at Kansas is not the Josh that they going to see in the NBA,” Selby said. “That’s the only thing that their concern is.”
