Precious Achiuwa has witnessed college basketball, sunny skies along the shoreline of South Beach in Miami and an unexpected transition to Toronto all in the last 19 months.
The 22-year-old experienced an incomplete college basketball season at the University of Memphis due to the coronavirus pandemic coupled with the NBA pushing back the 2020 NBA draft—initially scheduled for June 25 to Nov. 18—and playing in his first regular season game with the Heat more than a month later. Achiuwa didn’t know what to expect.
“Everything happened so fast,” says Achiuwa. “One day I was getting ready for the draft, then training camp and the next thing I know, I'm playing on Christmas Day.