LAS VEGAS — Former Arizona Wildcats Stanley Johnson and Brandon Ashley experienced very different April 24s this year.
Johnson played 30 minutes in Game 4 of the NBA Eastern Conference playoffs, scoring five and grabbing five rebounds in front of a raucous Pistons home crowd while guarding the best player on the planet, LeBron James.
About 4,200 miles away from Detroit, Ashley spent his April 24 scoring four points and grabbing seven rebounds in front of about 10,000 people at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin. He was eight games into his career with Alba Berlin, the best team in Basketball Bundesliga (BBL), Germany’s top basketball league.