As peculiar as the 2018 season was for the ASU men’s basketball team, no one had a more difficult time than Bobby Hurley.
Before the season began, he was already down one of his best assets. Freshman forward Kimani Lawrence suffered a stress fracture in his left foot prior to the team’s opener against Idaho State, removing the fourth-best recruit in program history from Hurley’s rotation.
Lawrence’s injury only added insult to what was already a depleted frontcourt. Fellow redshirt freshman forward Romello White had only played in one of the Sun Devils’ three preseason games due to an academic violation from a year before, and his impending return was uncertain.