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Who had a better summer than new Raptor Juancho (Bo Cruz) Hernangómez? Maybe no one

Many people got a pandemic puppy to help get through all those trying months of COVID-19 isolation.

Juancho Hernangómez got a pandemic acting career.

Two years ago, when no one could go anywhere and the days and weeks droned on interminably, the new Raptor was putting in time with his sister Andrea and brother Willy in Charlotte, N.C. It was suggested that he should submit a video, on a whim, for this movie project that was being kicked around: a down-on-his-luck agent finds a young basketball phenom to groom, with the outcome a tad predictable.