In early July, Northwestern’s two best players were absent from practice. The reason wasn’t injury or any other misfortune, though. Rather, junior point guard Bryant McIntosh and redshirt sophomore forward Vic Law were participating in camps with some of the best collegiate players in America at Stephen Curry’s SC30 Select Camp and the Under Armour All-American camp, respectively.
For McIntosh, it was his second year with the back-to-back NBA MVP. Curry took more of a backseat to analyze the players rather than play with them—it was just weeks after the grueling NBA season had concluded—as he had the first year.