Stefan Bondy caught up with Jarrett Allen this weekend at the Overwatch League grand finale, a gathering of 19,000 fellow gaming nerds filling the venue where he normally patrols the paint.
It was very Allen, a player whose diversity of interests scouts once mistook for disinterest in basketball. He proved them wrong last season by showing a work ethic and skillset that marked him as a Nets cornerstone.
”With the really good ones, you know right away,” Kenny Atkinson said near the end of last season. “Not that I’m some savant, but I knew.