SALT LAKE CITY — Utah Valley wing Kenneth Ogbe woke up Tuesday morning to a bunch of missed phone calls from Wolverines head coach Mark Pope and a knock on his window from former University of Utah teammate and best friend Austin Eastman.
There was good reason for the duo trying to get hold of Ogbe: the Utah Jazz needed him to head to Zions Bank Basketball Campus for a predraft workout after Colorado’s George King couldn’t get into Salt Lake City because of weather problems.
Although it was last-minute and he didn’t have a whole lot of time to prepare for it, Ogbe was happy to have the opportunity to show Jazz brass what he could do.