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Keshad Johnson describes journey from San Diego State to Arizona, his Bay Area roots and love of a former Wildcat great

With five power-conference programs to choose from, Keshad Johnson could have picked any of them and it probably would have been a great fit for his final season of college basketball. But only one was able to reunite him with his childhood idol.

Having Andre Iguodala attend his graduation party was icing on the cake.

“Growing up in the Bay Area I’d always been a Warriors fan,” Johnson, a transfer from San Diego State, told reporters Wednesday. “Once I started to grow and get taller and stuff like that, I started to kind of like mold my game kind of like after somebody like him.