DETROIT — If you assumed competitiveness would take a backseat to compassion for rookies Ausar and Amen Thompson as Ausar was going through an attention-garnering losing streak with the Detroit Pistons, well, you’d be wrong.
After all, the twins talk every day — multiple times, both said. And they haven’t seen each other since NBA Summer League in July, following a lifetime of hardly going more than a day without sharing the same space.
“Maybe two days at the most,” Ausar told Yahoo Sports.
When the Detroit Pistons and Houston Rockets match up Monday in Houston, it’ll be the first meeting between the fourth and fifth picks in the recent draft, not including the occasionally bloody backyard battles the two engaged in for years.