Returned Missionary Credits Basketball Success to His Mission in 'SLAM' Feature
SLAM - Growing up in Calgary, Alberta, Bachynski’s access to basketball in the heart of hockey country was limited. “It was hard to get a lot of exposure when it came to basketball so SLAM was my go-to for basketball news, all-things basketball. I read it as much as I could,” Bachynski says. Yet somehow, when he was 12 years old, Bachynski told his father he would hoop at Arizona State one day. “I just liked the sound of it,” he recalls. That specific prediction was certainly random, but the idea he would play Division I ball in the States was far from...