The NBA draft green room tables couldn’t have been arranged better for Lorenzo Romar.
Arizona’s new associate head coach sat with his former star guard at Washington, Markelle Fultz, while the table next to him featured Arizona’s Lauri Markkanen, a player Romar also considers family at this point.
“I was invited by Markelle’s mother but we also knew Lauri was getting drafted and several others potentially from the U of A, so it was kind of dual purpose,” Romar said.
The former Washington coach never really had a chance to know Markkanen, arriving in Tucson in April just as Markkanen was leaving to train in Washington, D.C., but said that didn’t really matter.
“He’s a Wildcat,” Romar said. “I was coming and he’s a Wildcat.”
