Wayne Ellington
Wayne Ellington was born on November 29, 1987, in Wynnewood, and holds United States citizenship. His education took him through Daniel Boone Area High School and then Episcopal Academy before he moved on to university-level study, a path that brought him to one of the more prominent college basketball settings in the country.
From 2006 to 2009, Ellington played basketball at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Those three seasons with the program represented the central chapter of his college career, and Chapel Hill served as the setting in which he developed as a player before moving on to the next stage of his professional life.
After his time at North Carolina, Ellington pursued a career as a professional basketball player. His occupation as a player has been a defining part of his adult life, rooted in the years of preparation that led up to and included his time at UNC.
Beyond playing, Ellington has also worked as a basketball coach, an occupation that reflects a continued engagement with the sport in a different role. His two listed occupations — basketball player and basketball coach — together trace the arc of a career built around the game across more than one capacity.
Quotes by Wayne Ellington
I feel like our friendship is bigger than the rivalry. We'll still be best of friends after we leave Duke and North Carolina.
I really think we're the best tandem not only in the area, but in the country. On and off the court I've never respected somebody as much as I respect him (Henderson). He's a great player and a great friend. We'll continue to be great friends, now we're just rivals.
Individually, I didn't think I shot the ball real well. But we ran our offense inside and got some easy buckets.
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.
After college, I feel like we'll be NBA superstars and live the life we dreamed of.
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 was highly upset that a team that talented would hold the ball. Obviously, they knew we were in the game and had a chance to win the game when they pulled the ball out.
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.
