Rasheed Sulaimon: Mother Speaks About Duke Exit

Rasheed Sulaimon is back in the news. You had forgotten Sulaimon? The one player in the history of Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s tenure that had been kicked off the team. The player who has landed on a top 5 Maryland team that might very well face the Blue Devils somewhere in the NCAA Tournament.

Well Mrs. Sulaimon hasn’t. While Rasheed has kept his head down, his mother Angela talked to Don Markus of the Baltimore Sun. In that interview she held back few punches on how she felt about the Sulaimon situation.

One of the first things she told Markus was Rasheed’s silence could not be interpreted as consent. Sulaimon is still trying to make the NBA and going publically against Coach Krzyzewski could be the nail in the coffin to his pro hopes. Coach K is the coach of Team USA and his word is well respected in NBA circles as a result.

Mrs. Sulaimon also told Markus that she and her husband were unhappy with the official statement that Coach K put out there. It is hard to see those kinds of things.

The official statement never says exactly why the organization took the action that it did. It just dresses the decision in official sounding language to meet the legal requirement of having a reason. The Sulaimons were never going to get the statement that listed out the real reasons, true or not, because that statement is not required and could prove how little the decision was based on.

The turning point for Sulaimon has been seen as the sexual assault allegations that came from the Duke student newspaper and never really substantiated outside of it. No formal charges were ever filed.