Jay-Z’s nephew Nahziah Carter leaving Washington to begin professional basketball career
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Nahziah Carter, an athletic 6-foot-6, 190-pound wing
By ADAM ZAGORIA & JACOB POLACHECK
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. — Nahziah Carter isn’t just making news for being Jay-Z’s nephew.
The athletic 6-foot-6, 190-pound wing from the Albany City Rocks continues to weigh his college options, and is considering going to college in either 2017 or ’18.
Georgetown, where he recently visited, is recruiting him for both options.
“We’ve been talking about 2017 because they just opened up a scholarship when someone entered the draft,” he said at the Nike EYBL stop here. “They told me I definitely have a scholarship for 2018. So, we’re gonna talk about 2017 soon. I guess everything plays a big part in my decision to go 2017 or 2018.”
It isn’t every day that the nephew of a major hip-hop mogul visits your college.
But Georgetown hosted such a visitor over the weekend when Nahziah Carter — Jay-Z’s nephew — visited the Big East school and new coach Patrick Ewing. The athletic 6-foot-7 wing, who is the son of Shawn Carter’s older brother Eric Carter, also tripped to Boston College on Wednesday.
“It’s getting out there, I guess,” Carter told the Democrat & Chronicle in February about his relationship to Jay-Z. “Whenever I go to see my grandmother (Gloria Carter), he’s usually there (in New Jersey).”
He calls him “Uncle J.”
Carter, who is only 17, averaged about 19 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists for Rochester (N.Y.) Bishop Kearney, which went 16-7 and reached the New York Section V Class AA semifinal.
After the former Dayton signee reopened his recruitment when Archie Miller left for Indiana, Carter has relished the second chance to go through the process and keep his options open. He could opt to attend prep school for the 2017-18 season but is now being courted hard by schools like Georgetown, Boston College, Indiana, Washington, Vanderbilt and South Carolina, among others.
By JOSH RATTRAY & ADAM ZAGORIA
INDIANAPOLIS — Athletic wing Nahziah Carter is taking his time.
After the former Dayton signee reopened his recruitment when Archie Miller left for Indiana, Carter has relished the second chance to go through the process and keep his options open. He is now in the Class of 2018 although he’s qualified for 2017, City Rocks coach Jim Hart said.
“I’ve gotten way more interest. I feel my game speaks for itself,” Carter said.
St. John’s, Georgetown, N.C. State, Boston College, Georgia Tech, Penn State and UMass have all offered.
Carter will visit Georgetown Saturday-Sunday but cancelled a visit to St. John’s set for Sunday night-Monday.
ST. JOHNS VISIT IS CANCELLED
— Nahziah Carter (@_ClutchCarter) May 3, 2017
“He’s 17 years old with unlimited upside,” Hart said.
