SALT LAKE CITY — Except for his one season with the Arizona Wildcats in 2016-17, Lauri Markkanen has gotten a glimpse of home in every one of his American stopovers.
That is, every time it snowed in Chicago, where the Finnish 7-footer spent his first four NBA seasons. Or in Cleveland, where he played last season. And now in Salt Lake City, where the Finnish 7-footer is putting together a breakout year.
People are also reading… "It might be that we’ve just gone out more but I feel like there’s more nature and outdoors," Markkanen said."Not just me but everyone else is doing it. Obviously, I’m a big hockey guy and I would love to go ice skating but I haven’t really." Markkanen played two more EuroBasket games after getting the news. He dropped 43 points in Finland’s 94-86 win over Croatia, and then had 28 points and 11 rebounds in a quarterfinal loss to Spain on Sept. 13.
"He was the guy for them," Markkanen said."He gets them going and he can be the star for that team… is a good physical player, he’s big and he’s a really smart player. They’re both good players." "Obviously, with the Finnish national team he was a focal point, so he wasn’t put into any sort of box," Hardy said."It’s a little bit of everything. A lot of everything, actually. That’s just the mindset we’ve had with him -- let’s not try to limit him and we’ve carried that over to our whole team. We’ve really tried to take the approach of looking at all of our guys and what they can do and put them in those spots as much as possible.
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