With two previous trips to the same locale during a seven-day stretch, there’s a certain familiarity that quickly ran through Brandon Miller’s memory banks Friday morning.
A simple glimpse at some of the easily spot-able landmarks scattered around Uptown brought back visions of those earlier visits to the Spectrum Center. Once the car he was traveling in passed the intersection of East Trade and North Caldwell streets, the 20-year-old suddenly morphed into someone who didn’t need to look at Waze.
“When we first pulled in, I kind of knew where I was going already,” Miller told The Observer following Charlotte’s press conference introducing its pair of first-round picks from Thursday night’s NBA Draft.