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It’s a Thursday morning in late August 2018, and the television hanging on the wall of Ben Johnson’s office inside Xavier University’s Cintas Center is displaying a grainy, unfocused basketball game.
It's Game 4 of the 2000 NBA Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Indiana Pacers.
When asked about it, Johnson matter-of-factly replies, “You never know when you’re gonna see something.”
Johnson, the second assistant coach that Xavier head coach Travis Steele hired to his staff, is a basketball addict.