With his friends and family celebrating all around him, Jarrell Brantley couldn’t answer the phone when his friend called to congratulate him. So Justin Wright-Foreman hung up and turned his attention back to NBA Draft coverage on the television. A short while later, it was Wright-Foreman who missed a congratulatory call from Brantley.
But Brantley and Wright-Foreman—the 50th and 53rd picks in last week’s draft respectively — will have plenty of time to catch up this summer as Utah Jazz teammates.
“We’re excited just because of the chemistry we’ve built over the past months,” Brantley said.
For four years, Brantley and Wright-Foreman saw each other as enemies.