Duop Reath doesn’t recall all that much of the Second Sudanese Civil War. But he remembers enough.
He recalls being one of the millions displaced and living literally nowhere, in a Kenyan refugee camp with his family. And the sacrifices his parents made to get him to the Las Vegas Summer League with the Nets, and on the cusp of the NBA.
It’s been a long, twisting trek for Reath, from South Sudan to Kenya, with stops in Australia and Texas, Louisiana and Serbia. And he’s hoping to make Brooklyn the next stop, after playing in two of the Nets’ six games on their way to last Sunday’s summer league semifinals.