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If there is anyone not surprised by what Wesley Matthews has done lately, you'd think it would be his mom.Pam Moore, who raised Matthews in Madison, Wis., as a single parent, always has believed her son is special. She long thought Matthews, undrafted out of Marquette in 2009, deserved a spot in the NBA.
But with the second-year Portland guard having averaged 18.3 points over his past 16 games, including a pair of 30-point efforts, even Moore at times has done a double take.
"With the work that Wesley puts in, I know he's on a mission,'' said Moore, a former star athlete who was featured in a FanHouse story last March about how she primarily taught basketball to Matthews and not his father, former NBA point guard Wes Matthews. "He's determined to be the best. But I have to admit I've been surprised a bit. I have to admit I dropped my jaw a couple of times when he had that 36-point game (Jan. 7 at Minnesota). What he's been able to do in the NBA in a short period of time, I have to just say, 'Wow.' It's more than I ever thought.''
Obviously, plenty of NBA folks are surprised as well. There were 60 players taken in the 2009 draft, with none named Matthews.
The 6-foot-5 Matthews stunned many as a Utah rookie last season when he averaged 9.4 points while starting 48 games. But that still wasn't good enough for the Jazz to match a five-year, $33 million offer sheet the Trail Blazers put down on Matthews last summer as a restricted free agent.
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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2011/02/09/wesley-matthews-blazing-own-trail-in-nba/
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