Stanley Johnson sat and watched but he didn’t stew.
He didn’t get angry, he didn’t quit on himself or his team. He worked when he had to, listened when he should have, learned what he could. He was an NBA lottery pick relegated to the end of the bench with his third team in five seasons. So many before him in similar situations had given up. He didn’t.
That attitude and ethic was not lost on his teammates or his coaches, and now Johnson finds himself in the regular Raptors rotation, a testament to his personality, his professionalism, his level of self-awareness.