Billy Preston says he spoke from the heart to his former University of Kansas basketball teammates and coaches on Sunday, a day after it was announced that he’d be leaving school to play professional basketball in Bosnia in advance of the 2018 NBA Draft.
“I basically told everybody I’d miss them,” Preston, a 6-foot-10 forward from Los Angeles told The Star in a Sunday night phone conversation.
“I told ’em it’s not the way it was (initially) planned. God has a plan for everybody, so it’s just the plan now,” Preston added.
The highly-touted McDonald’s All-American represented KU in exhibition games in Italy last summer and during three preseason contests prior to the start of the 2017-18 campaign.