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Did Vernon Carey Jr.’s mom want her son to play for Michigan State basketball?

Vernon Carey Jr., Duke basketball (Photo by Jacob Kupferman/Getty Images)

An interesting development took place in the comment section on Instagram. Did Vernon Carey Jr.’s mom want her son to play for Michigan State basketball?

Michigan State has had its fair share of recruiting misses over the years, and often times Duke is on the other side of that, reeling in the five-star recruit who was “this close” to picking the Spartans.

The poster child of this type of recruitment was Jabari Parker and then that was followed up by Jahlil Okafor and Tyus Jones but the most recent had to be Vernon Carey Jr.