LAS VEGAS -- Josh Hart’s final season at Villanova included all the headliner attributes. Defending national champion. BIG EAST Player of the Year. Regular-season title for the fourth consecutive year. Yet when the swingman and 2017 first-round pick joined the Los Angeles Lakers for the annual NBA Summer League, Hart truly got a sense of his future rock star life.
It’s one also desired by former Marquette standout Vander Blue, who played with Hart for a Lakers team that finished as NBA Summer League champions – and later learned some prayers are answered.
Daniel Ochefu has already tasted his professional dream, but the big man on Villanova’s 2016 national championship team wants more than a single season with the Washington Wizards.