Brice Johnson had lost the joy.
For someone like Johnson, that’s saying something. For four years at North Carolina, Johnson was about as emotive a player as there was in college basketball. After dunks, he’d scream so loudly, the veins in his neck bulged. He’d pump his fists. He may have been a full-grown, 6-foot-10, 230-pound man, but on the basketball court? He was just a big kid playing with a ball.
And then he wasn’t.
So what happened?
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