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Photos from the scene Hamilton, Mass. (WSYR-TV) - The Massachusetts home of Syracuse University basketball star Michael Carter-Williams has been destroyed by a massive fire, according to a Boston TV station. WCVB reports that the fire started around 10:30 Saturday night at the Hamilton, Mass. home of Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, the mother of Carter-Williams. Hamilton is about 30 miles north of Boston. Firefighters were called to a fire in an outside wood stove. When firefighters arrived at the home, there was heavy fire in the attic and around the chimney. Firefighters had to be evacuated from the home twice because of the fire‘s intensity. The flames were under control by 12:50 a.m. The family was watching SU's game against the University of California when the fire broke out, the station reports. No one was injured.
Carter-Williams tweeted on Sunday morning, "Thanks for the prayers everyone all thats important to me is my family is okay."
Carter-Williams' mother was at the game in San Jose on Saturday. During the game, the star point guard noticed her crying in the arena. "He saw me get upset from a timeout and he started asking me what was wrong," said Carter-Zegarowski. She had an academic advisor tell her son a "white lie" as she called it; something to keep him focused. "I had to pull it together and I knew he had to finish the game strong. I knew if he thought I was upset, he would be bothered by that."
Carter-Williams got the news of what happened in Massachusetts when the game ended. "He's obviously had a wonderful year and now he has to just concentrate a little bit harder," said his step-father Zach Zegarowski. Zegarowski was in the home at the time of the fire. "Two minutes and that's all we got. We had to be evacuated from the house." Carter-Williams' mother returned to a home that was mostly destroyed. "If they had lost [the game] it would have been a double whammy. So I was able to be happy for him and that something positive was coming out of the night." Most of Carter-Williams' All-American trophies were destroyed. His mother said once he found out his family was okay, he was fine. She is certain this will not be a distraction for Thursday's game. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Copyright 2013 9wsyr.com Nexstar Broadcasting, All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Print Story Share
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Syracuse (WSYR-TV) – Former Syracuse University guard Michael Carter-Williams has been selected 11th overall by the He declared for the draft after his sophomore season. Carter-Williams played 40 games last season for the Orange, averaging 11.9 points per game, 7.3 assists per game and 2.8 steals per game. He helped guide the Orange to the Final Four in the NCAA Basketball Tournament back in April. He was rated 20th overall on the 2011 ESPNU 100 when he signed with Syracuse University out of St. Andrews School in Rhode Island. The 21-year-old Carter-Williams is listed at 6‘6 and 185 pounds. Scouts like his length and play-making ability but have concerns about his strength and outside shooting. Carter-Williams is the sixth player from Syracuse University to be drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft in the last six years. Copyright 2013 9wsyr.com Nexstar Broadcasting, All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Growing up early can make or break a person. It could have broken Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, who got pregnant in college, yet opted to keep her baby and raise him as a single mother. It could have broken her when, nine months after her son‘s birth, her mother died. And growing up in a single-parent household, an African-American kid in an affluent, mostly white suburb of Boston, could have cracked guard Michael Carter-Williams, who helped lead Syracuse to the Final Four last season.
But it didn‘t. Just the opposite. Carter-Williams, who‘s expected to be a top-10 pick in tomorrow night‘s NBA Draft at Barclays Center, is more mature than a lot of players who choose to leave college after their sophomore seasons. ―We lived in five apartments in five years,‘‘ Carter-Zegarowski told The Post. ―It wasn‘t easy. But I know I‘m a stronger person and I think my son is. He learned some hard life lessons early.‘‘ Most of Carter-Williams‘s life lessons were learned on a basketball court, or on the sidelines of one. His biological father, Earl Williams, with whom he remains close, played at Salem State. His stepfather, Zach Zegarowski, was a star at UMass-Lowell before becoming a successful assistant coach at Charleston (Mass.) High, the school that was chronicled in the book, ―The Assist.‖ And Carter-Zegarowski was the girls coach at Ipswich (Mass.) High for a decade. Some days, Carter-Williams would sit in his stroller with a basketball in his hands, in one gym or another throughout Massachusetts. Other days, he would be fumbling a ball on the sidelines, learning to dribble before kindergarten. Later he would run up and down the sidelines, following Zegarowski‘s every move. ―Some kids had stuffed animals growing up,‘‘ Carter-Williams said. ―I had a basketball.‖ Carter-Williams initially didn‘t have his 6-foot-6 height. He grew six inches in the 18 months after he turned 16. NBA talent evaluators told The Post Carter-Williams‘ potential as an NBA point guard at that height makes him one of the more intriguing prospects in an unpredictable draft. Zegarowski said the defining moment for Carter-Williams came after his freshman season in high school, when he was getting looks from the Division III likes of Tufts and Wesleyan. He convinced Carter-Williams to attend the Nike Elite 100 camp. Perky Plumlee, father of Duke‘s Mason and Miles Plumlee, approached Zegarowski. ―He told me Michael was as good a player as he saw,‘‘ Zegarowski said. ―He said he plays like a high school senior and that he should be going to Duke or Virginia. I said, ‗Wow, wait a second, Duke?‘ He said he already made a few calls. ―I‘m more proud of the kid than anything else because of who he is. He‘s more of a spiritual, intuitive player than a technical player. I think it‘s because of how he grew up. He saw things earlier than most kids.‘‘ When he arrived at Syracuse, Carter-Williams was behind a trio of talented upperclassmen:
Scoop Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters, who was taken at No. 4 in last year‘s draft. Carter-Williams was glued to the bench. But coach Jim Boeheim and his staff realized they had a player wise beyond his years, one who was the hardest worker in practice, the first one off the bench to congratulate teammates. Boeheim told Carter-Zegarowski to be ready to change plans for her son. ―He said Michael was probably a two-year [college] player, not a four-year player,‘‘ she said. ―He told me how Michael was a leader in practice and how quickly he picked things up.‖ Carter-Williams, a declared Celtics fan, likely won‘t be around when the Knicks pick at No. 24. The Knicks need a point guard, and Carter-Williams feels as if this is his adopted home. ―I love the city of New York,‘‘ he said. ―Syracuse has such a big following there. It‘s a perfect fit for me. I love the Garden, seeing Spike Lee. That would be amazing. ―But I learned from my mother that life can be unpredictable. You have to be able to overcome adversity. I think I‘ve done that.‘‘
UPDATED: December 14, 2010, 5:50 p.m. Michael Carter-Williams is very much the coach on the floor for St. Andrew‘s (R.I.) School. A life surrounded by everything basketball will do that to any high schooler. But Carter-Williams isn‘t any other high school basketball player. Far from it. CarterWilliams is the closest thing to a regal Rhode Island basketball product the state has ever seen. The 2011 Syracuse basketball signee is the No. 8-ranked shooting guard in the country, according to Scout.com. His ranking, though, doesn‘t tell his story. His New England basketball lineage does. From his father to his mother to his stepfather. The places and high schools each has attended combined to foreshadow Carter-Williams‘ own New England basketball journey. The former high schools of the three speak directly to Carter-Williams‘ current situation. ‗Ever since I was born, really, I‘ve had a good support system,‘ Carter-Williams said. His parental triumvirate molded and shaped his life into the form it takes today. The form is that of Rhode Island‘s best basketball prospect. The form is one that reflects aspects of each of his three parents whose genetics and experiences have become interconnected within one of the nation‘s top high school players. ***
Ironically, though, the high-profile stardom that surrounds Carter-Williams currently resides well away from the spotlight. Carter-Williams attends the St. Andrew‘s school, a nondenominational boarding school of 213 students in Barrington, R.I. There, under the tutelage of head coach Mike Hart, the senior has come into his own. ‗Get up at 7 (a.m.),‘ Hart said. ‗You got classes until three. Three to four, we have a study hall. Four to 4:45, we lift weights. Four forty-five to 6:15, we have practice. Study hall ‗til 7:30 (p.m.). Ten o‘clock is free time in the dorm. ‗Lights out at eleven.‘ He stays focused, and basketball is his life. But to start his high school career, Carter-Williams‘ environment was drastically different from his school in the country‘s smallest state. If Carter-Williams stayed for his final three seasons at his hometown Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Massachusetts, his mother said he would have been the first person from his school to play Division I basketball in college. He would have been the happy superstar in high school. Instead, he was willing to shift focus and decided to transfer to a school with a stronger outlook to play in college: St. Andrew‘s. It was the logical next step. He was raised to do it. A flashback to the 1990s speaks to that. In the late 1990s and into the early 2000s most basketball players at Charlestown (Mass.) High School came from all over Boston. Carter-Williams‘ stepfather, Zach Zegarowski, was an assistant coach at Charlestown then. Charlestown is famous for a basketball program that is annually ranked as one of the top teams statewide and nationally — winning five championships in a seven-year span. There are no blood connections between Carter-Williams and Zegarowski, but that doesn‘t matter. From stepfather to stepson, the game was passed down. ‗He just teaches me the game and gets on how I play,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗He‘s really smart.‘ *** Carter-Williams‘ biological parents had the right genes. Put simply, he was born into a basketball family. He is the son of Amanda Carter-Zegarowski, girl‘s basketball head coach at Ipswich High. ‗My mom, she‘s probably my biggest critic,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗She‘s probably the most hard on me.‘
She is married to Zegarowski, who played college ball at UMass-Lowell. The family still has video of a 2-year-old Carter-Williams running up and down the court with a basketball while the game was in progress. The scene was the start of the tri-parent basketball learning curve. The last part of that curve is Carter-Williams‘ biological father, Earl. Earl has spent his life in and around the sport and continues to help at Cambridge Rindge and Latin (Mass.) School. He played college ball at Salem State from 1988 to 1990. He came from the same system as Patrick Ewing and Rumeal Robinson. And Carter-Williams was a part of that system, too, participating in clinics run by former St. John‘s head coach Mike Jarvis. It was a system that kept Carter-Williams on the path to basketball stardom. ‗My dad, he just helps me a lot mentally,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗Along with my stepmother, too, she keeps me focused especially. (She) tells me to take advantage of your goals and stuff like that.‘ *** That support system has enabled Carter-Williams, a 6-foot-5 point guard, to take full advantage of collegiate-like expertise. Three years ago, Michael wasn‘t a 6-foot-5 gem out of Rhode Island. Rather, a 5-foot-9 freshman having a great all-around year at Hamilton-Wenham in Massachusetts, leading his team into the league championship game. Carter-Williams averaged 20 points and buried 52 3-pointers. It wasn‘t until the end of his sophomore season that his family started to get looks at Division I schools and attention from head coaches. ‗I think Massachusetts was one of the first schools to really start to show interest,‘ Amanda said. ‗And I started to realize, wow, he can get a scholarship, and he‘s continuing to grow. And he still has that baby face.‘ The baby face then needed to move over to St. Andrew‘s, the state basketball powerhouse. After all, he had been bred to do it. In October 2009, after averaging just over 13 points per game as a sophomore for St. Andrew‘s, Carter-Williams decided to verbally commit to Syracuse. Regardless of his natural scoring ability on the court, and in spite of him lifting weights three times a week, if Carter-Williams has any convincing to do before he graduates, it will be on his frame and body size. The genetics of his father and mother, and the guidance of his stepfather, hurt him in that regard. Listed at what some say is a generous 175 pounds, Carter-Williams will perhaps have to continue to bench-press his way into Jim Boeheim‘s rotation next fall. ‗He‘s definitely going to have to get stronger,‘ Scout.com‘s Evan Daniels said. ‗That‘s an area he‘s going to need to focus on.‘
Carter-Williams is described by Daniels as a tremendous scorer who can get to the basket in a variety of ways. He‘s not only a very good long-range shooter, but he‘s capable of taking guys off the dribble in mid-range and at the basket. Think Kevin Durant‘s game in Shaun Livingston‘s body. ‗When his body gets to where his game is, he‘s going to be a really good basketball player,‘ Williams said. ‗He‘s thin, but he‘s wiry strong.‘ Being ‗wiry strong‘ was handed down through genetics. The same genetics that, seemingly since Carter-Williams‘ birth, have made sure he becomes Rhode Island‘s next gem. *** But before he can do all that, the humble, understated guard has to finish his senior season, arrive at Syracuse next fall and begin to carve out a career of his own. Because for once, he will be on his own. After everything the unorthodox trio did for him. Williams, for one, professes his son is ready for Syracuse. Everything has led him up to this point. ‗You can see the desire in him,‘ Williams said. ‗He loves basketball. When you‘ve been around basketball all your life, either you‘re going to get it or you‘re not going to get it. And I definitely think that he got it.‘ [email protected] The original version of this article incorrectly stated Earl Williams’ college and professional basketball experience. He played at Salem State College from 1988 to 1990. He never played professional basketball. The Daily Orange regrets these errors.
Michael Carter-Williams at age 4 with his stepfather,Zach Zegarowski. The two bonded through basketball. (Carter-Williams family)
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Posted: December 02, 2013 HAMILTON, Mass. - Earl Williams knew early on that things would be fine. He would commute 29 miles from Cambridge to pick up his oldest son in the ruralsuburban town of Hamilton, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. The sound of a young
Michael Carter-Williams dribbling a basketball was often the first thing the father heard as he drove up to the white colonial house on Cutler Street. That noise often led Williams to walk to the back of the house, where he would spot CarterWilliams performing basketball drills under the supervision of his stepfather, Zach Zegarowski. On the outside, the daily bonding between Carter-Williams and Zegarowski through basketball would complicate things. That's because Zegarowski - not Williams - was the one making the decisions in regard to Carter-Williams' basketball career. Whether it was giving the youngster a ride to a game in a pinch, coaching his youth basketball teams, or providing constructive criticism, the stepfather was there. And he still is. These days, Carter-Williams is arguably the face of the 76ers. The rookie point guard shares a luxury apartment with Zegarowski in Bala Cynwyd. "It worked, as far as the outcome," Williams said. "I'd be a selfish person if I didn't give [Zegarowski] respect for what he's done. And he's done a lot. . . . I just played my position, I'm Daddy. "Like I always say, it takes a village to raise kids, anyway." And the NBA's leading rookie-of-the-year candidate has nothing short of a village supporting him.
Living the life The story of the player known around Philly as MCW starts with his maternal grandfather, who went by the name of Michael Carter. He was a horseman, who at the age of 30 bought 14 acres and built a barn on Cutler Street in 1959. "His real name is Leroy," Carter-Williams' mother, Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, said of her father. "I think he picked up the name Mike, because white people wouldn't work with him early on over the phone. "I'm dead serious. He had to say this is Mike and not Leroy, because Leroy was too black." Once he changed his name to get business, the hardworking Carter found Hamilton to be a profitable place. The town of 7,764 people covers 14.9 square miles and includes pastoral landscapes and historical houses. Hamilton has a feel similar to Devon. The Myopia Hunt Club holds equestrian events, which include polo on Sunday afternoons. Drivers use extreme caution on secondary roads because they share them with horseback riders.
It's hard to miss the numerous horse farms around town, especially the one Carter owned and which surrounds the two acres where Carter-Williams grew up. (In March, the house was destroyed in a three-alarm fire. It is being rebuilt.) Carter now resides in a nursing home and is wheelchair-bound because of spinal stenosis. His body fell apart and a doctor told Carter-Zegarowski that her father basically worked himself into being handicapped. "He never took a day off. Never," she said. "My parents divorced because he was married to his job. He was working with 22 horses. It was the labor that really beat up his body."
Superstar in the making While he's careful not to destroy his body, Carter-Williams, 22, has inherited his grandfather's work ethic. The 6-foot-6, 185-pounder routinely sticks around after practice to work on three-point shooting and spin moves to the basket. In addition to his pregame workouts, CarterWilliams often goes over his game performances with Zegarowski back at the apartment. So far, he hasn't had a lot to be disappointed about. Carter-Williams led all rookies in scoring (17.2 points per game), assists (7.2), and minutes played (36.2) heading into Saturday's games. The 11th overall pick was second among rookies in rebounding (5.3), and second among all players in the NBA in steals (2.92). "I said so sort of at the get-go, incrementally: He's better than I thought," Sixers coach Brett Brown said. "He's better than I thought. He's better than I thought I thought." It didn't take long for Carter-Williams to ascend to the top of the rookie class. He finished with 22 points, 12 assists, 9 steals, 7 rebounds, and just one turnover in 36 minutes, 11 seconds in the season-opening victory over the Miami Heat. His nine steals were an NBA record for a rookie in his first game. Carter-Williams was named the NBA Eastern Conference player of the week after the Sixers opened the season with victories over the Miami Heat, Washington Wizards, and Chicago Bulls. He is just the second rookie to win the honor during the starting week of his NBA career. Shaquille O'Neal did it with the Orlando Magic in 1992. "I'm not surprised with his success," said Cleveland Cavaliers second-year guard Dion Waiters, a former teammate at Syracuse. "He comes from a basketball family."
Basketball role models Carter-Williams comes from good basketball stock. His mother, father, and stepfather all played and coached the game. Carter-Zegarowski played at Salem State (Mass.). She spent the last 10 seasons as a successful high school basketball coach at Ipswitch High, winning seven Cape Anne League titles. Earl Williams played at Salem State and was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The two had Michael while at Salem State in 1991. Carter-Zegarowski met her husband when he was a player at Massachusetts Lowell when Michael was 18 months old. They married in 1996. Zegarowski later became a respected assistant coach at Charlestown High in Boston. He is credited with Carter-Williams' maturation into a lottery pick. And his stepson didn't always like going through the process. The two used to work out at an outdoor court at Miles River Middle School before the family built its backyard court. "All of a sudden, I would see Michael walking by himself back from the workouts," said Carter-Zegarowski, recalling an episode when her oldest son was 9 years old. "It would get bad sometimes, because Michael didn't always want to fight through it." But that's just the half of it. Zegarowski would put his stepson on AAU teams with players much older than him, often to the dismay of his wife. Williams had and still has a different role. "Psychologically, he helps me out a lot," Carter-Williams said of his father. "He keeps me calm and keeps me patient, always connected with the Lord, and just staying and believing in myself." Williams never wanted his son to get autographs from NBA players growing up. His reasoning was that Carter-Williams shouldn't be in awe of other basketball players. "Every time we watch somebody play or we talk about somebody, I always say he's a bum," said Williams, who has another son, Adrian, 13, with his wife, Rosa. "And he's like, 'You think I'm better than everybody.' And I say, 'Yeah.' "At that time, that guy might have been better than him. But I just knew that he was going to be better than him. I always felt that way."
Carter-Zegarowski's role is that of a caregiver. She always makes sure Michael and her other children, Masey, 16, and twins Marcus and Maxwell, 15, have what they need. Nowadays, Carter-Zegarowski and her best friend, Tracie Tracy, are running his management team. They are taking a proactive approach to make sure he doesn't spend all his money in a couple of years. His rookie contract guarantees him $4.5 million over his first two seasons. He could make a total of $10 million if the Sixers pick up the final two seasons of his contract. But his salary is deposited into a trust he can't touch for three years. Carter-Williams is living off endorsement deals with Nike and Panini trading cards. That's just one of the benefits of having caring parents. His mother and stepfather have taught him the value of taking care of the less fortunate. The couple raised two of Zegarowski's former Charlestown players, James Rodrigues and Anderson Santana. The two are Carter-Williams' best friends and take care of the twins while his mother is in Philadelphia. "I think everyone plays their role with him well," Williams said. "It's like having an NBA team. . . . If you can't play that role then you are thinking of yourself. "You are not thinking about that individual: Michael."
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Photos from the scene Hamilton, Mass. (WSYR-TV) - The Massachusetts home of Syracuse University basketball star Michael Carter-Williams has been destroyed by a massive fire, according to a Boston TV station. WCVB reports that the fire started around 10:30 Saturday night at the Hamilton, Mass. home of Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, the mother of Carter-Williams. Hamilton is about 30 miles north of Boston. Firefighters were called to a fire in an outside wood stove. When firefighters arrived at the home, there was heavy fire in the attic and around the chimney. Firefighters had to be evacuated from the home twice because of the fire‘s intensity. The flames were under control by 12:50 a.m. The family was watching SU's game against the University of California when the fire broke out, the station reports. No one was injured.
Carter-Williams tweeted on Sunday morning, "Thanks for the prayers everyone all thats important to me is my family is okay."
Carter-Williams' mother was at the game in San Jose on Saturday. During the game, the star point guard noticed her crying in the arena. "He saw me get upset from a timeout and he started asking me what was wrong," said Carter-Zegarowski. She had an academic advisor tell her son a "white lie" as she called it; something to keep him focused. "I had to pull it together and I knew he had to finish the game strong. I knew if he thought I was upset, he would be bothered by that."
Carter-Williams got the news of what happened in Massachusetts when the game ended. "He's obviously had a wonderful year and now he has to just concentrate a little bit harder," said his step-father Zach Zegarowski. Zegarowski was in the home at the time of the fire. "Two minutes and that's all we got. We had to be evacuated from the house." Carter-Williams' mother returned to a home that was mostly destroyed. "If they had lost [the game] it would have been a double whammy. So I was able to be happy for him and that something positive was coming out of the night." Most of Carter-Williams' All-American trophies were destroyed. His mother said once he found out his family was okay, he was fine. She is certain this will not be a distraction for Thursday's game. The cause of the fire is under investigation. Copyright 2013 9wsyr.com Nexstar Broadcasting, All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Print Story Share
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Syracuse (WSYR-TV) – Former Syracuse University guard Michael Carter-Williams has been selected 11th overall by the He declared for the draft after his sophomore season. Carter-Williams played 40 games last season for the Orange, averaging 11.9 points per game, 7.3 assists per game and 2.8 steals per game. He helped guide the Orange to the Final Four in the NCAA Basketball Tournament back in April. He was rated 20th overall on the 2011 ESPNU 100 when he signed with Syracuse University out of St. Andrews School in Rhode Island. The 21-year-old Carter-Williams is listed at 6‘6 and 185 pounds. Scouts like his length and play-making ability but have concerns about his strength and outside shooting. Carter-Williams is the sixth player from Syracuse University to be drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft in the last six years. Copyright 2013 9wsyr.com Nexstar Broadcasting, All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Growing up early can make or break a person. It could have broken Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, who got pregnant in college, yet opted to keep her baby and raise him as a single mother. It could have broken her when, nine months after her son‘s birth, her mother died. And growing up in a single-parent household, an African-American kid in an affluent, mostly white suburb of Boston, could have cracked guard Michael Carter-Williams, who helped lead Syracuse to the Final Four last season.
But it didn‘t. Just the opposite. Carter-Williams, who‘s expected to be a top-10 pick in tomorrow night‘s NBA Draft at Barclays Center, is more mature than a lot of players who choose to leave college after their sophomore seasons. ―We lived in five apartments in five years,‘‘ Carter-Zegarowski told The Post. ―It wasn‘t easy. But I know I‘m a stronger person and I think my son is. He learned some hard life lessons early.‘‘ Most of Carter-Williams‘s life lessons were learned on a basketball court, or on the sidelines of one. His biological father, Earl Williams, with whom he remains close, played at Salem State. His stepfather, Zach Zegarowski, was a star at UMass-Lowell before becoming a successful assistant coach at Charleston (Mass.) High, the school that was chronicled in the book, ―The Assist.‖ And Carter-Zegarowski was the girls coach at Ipswich (Mass.) High for a decade. Some days, Carter-Williams would sit in his stroller with a basketball in his hands, in one gym or another throughout Massachusetts. Other days, he would be fumbling a ball on the sidelines, learning to dribble before kindergarten. Later he would run up and down the sidelines, following Zegarowski‘s every move. ―Some kids had stuffed animals growing up,‘‘ Carter-Williams said. ―I had a basketball.‖ Carter-Williams initially didn‘t have his 6-foot-6 height. He grew six inches in the 18 months after he turned 16. NBA talent evaluators told The Post Carter-Williams‘ potential as an NBA point guard at that height makes him one of the more intriguing prospects in an unpredictable draft. Zegarowski said the defining moment for Carter-Williams came after his freshman season in high school, when he was getting looks from the Division III likes of Tufts and Wesleyan. He convinced Carter-Williams to attend the Nike Elite 100 camp. Perky Plumlee, father of Duke‘s Mason and Miles Plumlee, approached Zegarowski. ―He told me Michael was as good a player as he saw,‘‘ Zegarowski said. ―He said he plays like a high school senior and that he should be going to Duke or Virginia. I said, ‗Wow, wait a second, Duke?‘ He said he already made a few calls. ―I‘m more proud of the kid than anything else because of who he is. He‘s more of a spiritual, intuitive player than a technical player. I think it‘s because of how he grew up. He saw things earlier than most kids.‘‘ When he arrived at Syracuse, Carter-Williams was behind a trio of talented upperclassmen:
Scoop Jardine, Brandon Triche and Dion Waiters, who was taken at No. 4 in last year‘s draft. Carter-Williams was glued to the bench. But coach Jim Boeheim and his staff realized they had a player wise beyond his years, one who was the hardest worker in practice, the first one off the bench to congratulate teammates. Boeheim told Carter-Zegarowski to be ready to change plans for her son. ―He said Michael was probably a two-year [college] player, not a four-year player,‘‘ she said. ―He told me how Michael was a leader in practice and how quickly he picked things up.‖ Carter-Williams, a declared Celtics fan, likely won‘t be around when the Knicks pick at No. 24. The Knicks need a point guard, and Carter-Williams feels as if this is his adopted home. ―I love the city of New York,‘‘ he said. ―Syracuse has such a big following there. It‘s a perfect fit for me. I love the Garden, seeing Spike Lee. That would be amazing. ―But I learned from my mother that life can be unpredictable. You have to be able to overcome adversity. I think I‘ve done that.‘‘
UPDATED: December 14, 2010, 5:50 p.m. Michael Carter-Williams is very much the coach on the floor for St. Andrew‘s (R.I.) School. A life surrounded by everything basketball will do that to any high schooler. But Carter-Williams isn‘t any other high school basketball player. Far from it. CarterWilliams is the closest thing to a regal Rhode Island basketball product the state has ever seen. The 2011 Syracuse basketball signee is the No. 8-ranked shooting guard in the country, according to Scout.com. His ranking, though, doesn‘t tell his story. His New England basketball lineage does. From his father to his mother to his stepfather. The places and high schools each has attended combined to foreshadow Carter-Williams‘ own New England basketball journey. The former high schools of the three speak directly to Carter-Williams‘ current situation. ‗Ever since I was born, really, I‘ve had a good support system,‘ Carter-Williams said. His parental triumvirate molded and shaped his life into the form it takes today. The form is that of Rhode Island‘s best basketball prospect. The form is one that reflects aspects of each of his three parents whose genetics and experiences have become interconnected within one of the nation‘s top high school players. ***
Ironically, though, the high-profile stardom that surrounds Carter-Williams currently resides well away from the spotlight. Carter-Williams attends the St. Andrew‘s school, a nondenominational boarding school of 213 students in Barrington, R.I. There, under the tutelage of head coach Mike Hart, the senior has come into his own. ‗Get up at 7 (a.m.),‘ Hart said. ‗You got classes until three. Three to four, we have a study hall. Four to 4:45, we lift weights. Four forty-five to 6:15, we have practice. Study hall ‗til 7:30 (p.m.). Ten o‘clock is free time in the dorm. ‗Lights out at eleven.‘ He stays focused, and basketball is his life. But to start his high school career, Carter-Williams‘ environment was drastically different from his school in the country‘s smallest state. If Carter-Williams stayed for his final three seasons at his hometown Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School in Massachusetts, his mother said he would have been the first person from his school to play Division I basketball in college. He would have been the happy superstar in high school. Instead, he was willing to shift focus and decided to transfer to a school with a stronger outlook to play in college: St. Andrew‘s. It was the logical next step. He was raised to do it. A flashback to the 1990s speaks to that. In the late 1990s and into the early 2000s most basketball players at Charlestown (Mass.) High School came from all over Boston. Carter-Williams‘ stepfather, Zach Zegarowski, was an assistant coach at Charlestown then. Charlestown is famous for a basketball program that is annually ranked as one of the top teams statewide and nationally — winning five championships in a seven-year span. There are no blood connections between Carter-Williams and Zegarowski, but that doesn‘t matter. From stepfather to stepson, the game was passed down. ‗He just teaches me the game and gets on how I play,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗He‘s really smart.‘ *** Carter-Williams‘ biological parents had the right genes. Put simply, he was born into a basketball family. He is the son of Amanda Carter-Zegarowski, girl‘s basketball head coach at Ipswich High. ‗My mom, she‘s probably my biggest critic,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗She‘s probably the most hard on me.‘
She is married to Zegarowski, who played college ball at UMass-Lowell. The family still has video of a 2-year-old Carter-Williams running up and down the court with a basketball while the game was in progress. The scene was the start of the tri-parent basketball learning curve. The last part of that curve is Carter-Williams‘ biological father, Earl. Earl has spent his life in and around the sport and continues to help at Cambridge Rindge and Latin (Mass.) School. He played college ball at Salem State from 1988 to 1990. He came from the same system as Patrick Ewing and Rumeal Robinson. And Carter-Williams was a part of that system, too, participating in clinics run by former St. John‘s head coach Mike Jarvis. It was a system that kept Carter-Williams on the path to basketball stardom. ‗My dad, he just helps me a lot mentally,‘ Carter-Williams said. ‗Along with my stepmother, too, she keeps me focused especially. (She) tells me to take advantage of your goals and stuff like that.‘ *** That support system has enabled Carter-Williams, a 6-foot-5 point guard, to take full advantage of collegiate-like expertise. Three years ago, Michael wasn‘t a 6-foot-5 gem out of Rhode Island. Rather, a 5-foot-9 freshman having a great all-around year at Hamilton-Wenham in Massachusetts, leading his team into the league championship game. Carter-Williams averaged 20 points and buried 52 3-pointers. It wasn‘t until the end of his sophomore season that his family started to get looks at Division I schools and attention from head coaches. ‗I think Massachusetts was one of the first schools to really start to show interest,‘ Amanda said. ‗And I started to realize, wow, he can get a scholarship, and he‘s continuing to grow. And he still has that baby face.‘ The baby face then needed to move over to St. Andrew‘s, the state basketball powerhouse. After all, he had been bred to do it. In October 2009, after averaging just over 13 points per game as a sophomore for St. Andrew‘s, Carter-Williams decided to verbally commit to Syracuse. Regardless of his natural scoring ability on the court, and in spite of him lifting weights three times a week, if Carter-Williams has any convincing to do before he graduates, it will be on his frame and body size. The genetics of his father and mother, and the guidance of his stepfather, hurt him in that regard. Listed at what some say is a generous 175 pounds, Carter-Williams will perhaps have to continue to bench-press his way into Jim Boeheim‘s rotation next fall. ‗He‘s definitely going to have to get stronger,‘ Scout.com‘s Evan Daniels said. ‗That‘s an area he‘s going to need to focus on.‘
Carter-Williams is described by Daniels as a tremendous scorer who can get to the basket in a variety of ways. He‘s not only a very good long-range shooter, but he‘s capable of taking guys off the dribble in mid-range and at the basket. Think Kevin Durant‘s game in Shaun Livingston‘s body. ‗When his body gets to where his game is, he‘s going to be a really good basketball player,‘ Williams said. ‗He‘s thin, but he‘s wiry strong.‘ Being ‗wiry strong‘ was handed down through genetics. The same genetics that, seemingly since Carter-Williams‘ birth, have made sure he becomes Rhode Island‘s next gem. *** But before he can do all that, the humble, understated guard has to finish his senior season, arrive at Syracuse next fall and begin to carve out a career of his own. Because for once, he will be on his own. After everything the unorthodox trio did for him. Williams, for one, professes his son is ready for Syracuse. Everything has led him up to this point. ‗You can see the desire in him,‘ Williams said. ‗He loves basketball. When you‘ve been around basketball all your life, either you‘re going to get it or you‘re not going to get it. And I definitely think that he got it.‘ [email protected] The original version of this article incorrectly stated Earl Williams’ college and professional basketball experience. He played at Salem State College from 1988 to 1990. He never played professional basketball. The Daily Orange regrets these errors.
Michael Carter-Williams at age 4 with his stepfather,Zach Zegarowski. The two bonded through basketball. (Carter-Williams family)
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By Keith Pompey, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: December 02, 2013 HAMILTON, Mass. - Earl Williams knew early on that things would be fine. He would commute 29 miles from Cambridge to pick up his oldest son in the ruralsuburban town of Hamilton, on the North Shore of Massachusetts. The sound of a young
Michael Carter-Williams dribbling a basketball was often the first thing the father heard as he drove up to the white colonial house on Cutler Street. That noise often led Williams to walk to the back of the house, where he would spot CarterWilliams performing basketball drills under the supervision of his stepfather, Zach Zegarowski. On the outside, the daily bonding between Carter-Williams and Zegarowski through basketball would complicate things. That's because Zegarowski - not Williams - was the one making the decisions in regard to Carter-Williams' basketball career. Whether it was giving the youngster a ride to a game in a pinch, coaching his youth basketball teams, or providing constructive criticism, the stepfather was there. And he still is. These days, Carter-Williams is arguably the face of the 76ers. The rookie point guard shares a luxury apartment with Zegarowski in Bala Cynwyd. "It worked, as far as the outcome," Williams said. "I'd be a selfish person if I didn't give [Zegarowski] respect for what he's done. And he's done a lot. . . . I just played my position, I'm Daddy. "Like I always say, it takes a village to raise kids, anyway." And the NBA's leading rookie-of-the-year candidate has nothing short of a village supporting him.
Living the life The story of the player known around Philly as MCW starts with his maternal grandfather, who went by the name of Michael Carter. He was a horseman, who at the age of 30 bought 14 acres and built a barn on Cutler Street in 1959. "His real name is Leroy," Carter-Williams' mother, Mandy Carter-Zegarowski, said of her father. "I think he picked up the name Mike, because white people wouldn't work with him early on over the phone. "I'm dead serious. He had to say this is Mike and not Leroy, because Leroy was too black." Once he changed his name to get business, the hardworking Carter found Hamilton to be a profitable place. The town of 7,764 people covers 14.9 square miles and includes pastoral landscapes and historical houses. Hamilton has a feel similar to Devon. The Myopia Hunt Club holds equestrian events, which include polo on Sunday afternoons. Drivers use extreme caution on secondary roads because they share them with horseback riders.
It's hard to miss the numerous horse farms around town, especially the one Carter owned and which surrounds the two acres where Carter-Williams grew up. (In March, the house was destroyed in a three-alarm fire. It is being rebuilt.) Carter now resides in a nursing home and is wheelchair-bound because of spinal stenosis. His body fell apart and a doctor told Carter-Zegarowski that her father basically worked himself into being handicapped. "He never took a day off. Never," she said. "My parents divorced because he was married to his job. He was working with 22 horses. It was the labor that really beat up his body."
Superstar in the making While he's careful not to destroy his body, Carter-Williams, 22, has inherited his grandfather's work ethic. The 6-foot-6, 185-pounder routinely sticks around after practice to work on three-point shooting and spin moves to the basket. In addition to his pregame workouts, CarterWilliams often goes over his game performances with Zegarowski back at the apartment. So far, he hasn't had a lot to be disappointed about. Carter-Williams led all rookies in scoring (17.2 points per game), assists (7.2), and minutes played (36.2) heading into Saturday's games. The 11th overall pick was second among rookies in rebounding (5.3), and second among all players in the NBA in steals (2.92). "I said so sort of at the get-go, incrementally: He's better than I thought," Sixers coach Brett Brown said. "He's better than I thought. He's better than I thought I thought." It didn't take long for Carter-Williams to ascend to the top of the rookie class. He finished with 22 points, 12 assists, 9 steals, 7 rebounds, and just one turnover in 36 minutes, 11 seconds in the season-opening victory over the Miami Heat. His nine steals were an NBA record for a rookie in his first game. Carter-Williams was named the NBA Eastern Conference player of the week after the Sixers opened the season with victories over the Miami Heat, Washington Wizards, and Chicago Bulls. He is just the second rookie to win the honor during the starting week of his NBA career. Shaquille O'Neal did it with the Orlando Magic in 1992. "I'm not surprised with his success," said Cleveland Cavaliers second-year guard Dion Waiters, a former teammate at Syracuse. "He comes from a basketball family."
Basketball role models Carter-Williams comes from good basketball stock. His mother, father, and stepfather all played and coached the game. Carter-Zegarowski played at Salem State (Mass.). She spent the last 10 seasons as a successful high school basketball coach at Ipswitch High, winning seven Cape Anne League titles. Earl Williams played at Salem State and was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. The two had Michael while at Salem State in 1991. Carter-Zegarowski met her husband when he was a player at Massachusetts Lowell when Michael was 18 months old. They married in 1996. Zegarowski later became a respected assistant coach at Charlestown High in Boston. He is credited with Carter-Williams' maturation into a lottery pick. And his stepson didn't always like going through the process. The two used to work out at an outdoor court at Miles River Middle School before the family built its backyard court. "All of a sudden, I would see Michael walking by himself back from the workouts," said Carter-Zegarowski, recalling an episode when her oldest son was 9 years old. "It would get bad sometimes, because Michael didn't always want to fight through it." But that's just the half of it. Zegarowski would put his stepson on AAU teams with players much older than him, often to the dismay of his wife. Williams had and still has a different role. "Psychologically, he helps me out a lot," Carter-Williams said of his father. "He keeps me calm and keeps me patient, always connected with the Lord, and just staying and believing in myself." Williams never wanted his son to get autographs from NBA players growing up. His reasoning was that Carter-Williams shouldn't be in awe of other basketball players. "Every time we watch somebody play or we talk about somebody, I always say he's a bum," said Williams, who has another son, Adrian, 13, with his wife, Rosa. "And he's like, 'You think I'm better than everybody.' And I say, 'Yeah.' "At that time, that guy might have been better than him. But I just knew that he was going to be better than him. I always felt that way."
Carter-Zegarowski's role is that of a caregiver. She always makes sure Michael and her other children, Masey, 16, and twins Marcus and Maxwell, 15, have what they need. Nowadays, Carter-Zegarowski and her best friend, Tracie Tracy, are running his management team. They are taking a proactive approach to make sure he doesn't spend all his money in a couple of years. His rookie contract guarantees him $4.5 million over his first two seasons. He could make a total of $10 million if the Sixers pick up the final two seasons of his contract. But his salary is deposited into a trust he can't touch for three years. Carter-Williams is living off endorsement deals with Nike and Panini trading cards. That's just one of the benefits of having caring parents. His mother and stepfather have taught him the value of taking care of the less fortunate. The couple raised two of Zegarowski's former Charlestown players, James Rodrigues and Anderson Santana. The two are Carter-Williams' best friends and take care of the twins while his mother is in Philadelphia. "I think everyone plays their role with him well," Williams said. "It's like having an NBA team. . . . If you can't play that role then you are thinking of yourself. "You are not thinking about that individual: Michael."
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