Luka Garza's phone rang in Dallas last March.
The night before, he had 23 points and 13 rebounds playing 39 minutes for the Iowa Wolves against the Rio Grande Valley Vipers, the G League affiliate of the Houston Rockets. Now, he was being told he'd been called up to the NBA for a road game in Atlanta the next day.
Garza had to fly immediately back to Des Moines and pack what he could. The former University of Iowa All-America woke up around 3 a.m., flew to Atlanta, met with his teammates at the pregame shootaround and took a short nap at the hotel.