Every so often a player comes along that possesses an indescribable ability to captivate an audience to the point where years, even decades later, the people who came to watch them play in person exude a sense of gratitude for being taken along for the ride. The Creighton men’s basketball team has produced that opportunity for the city of Omaha on a few occasions in the last 20 years with NBA veterans Kyle Korver and Doug McDermott, and even local stars Justin Patton and Khyri Thomas, to a lesser extent, for the one season they spent at CU together in 2016-17.