Wayne Ellington
Wayne Ellington
Wayne Robert Ellington, Jr.is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association. He played for the University of North Carolina from 2006 to 2009. He chose to forgo his final season of college eligibility to declare for the 2009 NBA draft, and was drafted 28th overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves. He has previously played for the Timberwolves, Memphis Grizzlies, Cleveland Cavaliers, Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth29 November 1987
CityWyndmoor, PA
He made me a lot better actually, having someone to go through this whole thing with you is a lot better than going through it by yourself. You can't really slack because I know he's going to be working and I'm going to be working, so basically it helped me raise my game so I can compete at the next level.
He'll have to wear a North Carolina sweatshirt with a Duke shirt underneath it.
After college, I feel like we'll be NBA superstars and live the life we dreamed of.
It was an instant click. I didn't feel any flaws or anything. We just kind of played our game and complemented each other real well.
There's no way it'll fade. These past three years we've become so tight that I feel like our friendship is bigger than this whole Duke-North Carolina thing.
I sat down one day and thought about how crazy it was that two players from the same team, the same backcourt are going to the biggest rivalry in college basketball. It seems like just yesterday that we were just getting college letters. I never imagined it would come down to Duke and Carolina.
It gets heated, but I usually wax him. He likes to say he wins because one day he won three in a row. Anyway, one day he won a couple of games.