Damian Johnson's new home, Oita, is on the island Kyushu in southern Japan
Recent Minnesota Golden Gopher graduate and former basketball captain Damian Johnson recently signed with Oita Heat Devils in the Japanese BJ League. He generously took some time share what he has been up to and to look back at his Gopher career.
From The Barn: The first question has to be how you ended up in Japan? Last time a lot of us heard about you, you were on various NBA summer league teams trying to get a spot in the league. So what takes place between graduation and career in a foreign league?
Damian Johnson:The coach for the team I’m playing for contacted my agent and expressed interest. This summer I was with the (Miami) Heat summer league but I was suppose to go to their mini camp then go to the T-wolves camp but Miami kept me longer than expected.
From The Barn: What is the game like over there? What is the level of competition? Are your teammates mostly Japanese? American? Anyone we w...
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