Supporting Rookies is always something that the team have to do, fellow players help with mentoring and to smooth over NBA life. Helping make it easier to get used to the unique speed that being an NBA player provides.
It’s especially significant in this case. If you’re a fan of Stanley Johnson you know that his mother passed away a month ago. So you can guess that it’s been pretty hard for Johnson recently. But Andre Drummond has offered Johnson to stay at his place to help make his Rookie ride smoother.
If Andre Drummond has his way, he will have a roommate next year — longtime friend and newfound Detroit Pistons teammate Stanley Johnson.
“He wants me to live with him this year,” Johnson said Thursday, “so that should be interesting, to see what happens there.”
Any NBA team would be in nurturing mode with a 19-year-old rookie who played only one season, though the Pistons figure to be particularly attentive to Johnson, whose mother Karen Taylor passed away earlier this month.
“It’s been tough,” Johnson said. “I’ve had a couple family things going on, and this, that, and the third. But I’m a professional. I have a job. So I handled my family stuff. I got a lot of help, as well. That’s something that will always be, for the rest of my life. But I’m doing my job now and working out the whole time. But it is what it is, you know what I’m saying?”
The drafting to Detroit was probably the best thing for Stanley Johnson, he knows Drummond very well and I think this’ll be good for Stanimal. Living with a bro is always good.
