As part of West Coast Conference basketball media day last week in Las Vegas, players were ushered to a room for promotional video spots. In the middle of the room was a long table where you tried to roll ping pong balls into mini nets attached to the end.

Two USD players giddily began rolling the balls.

The third, Vuk Boskovic from Bosnia, rolled his eyes. “Too old for this,” he joked.

He is 22, with a full beard and a grown man’s body, 265 pounds of sausages and vegetable stew packed into a sturdy 6-foot-6 frame, a grizzled veteran of four years in the Bosnian pro league, the kind of guy who’s seen a few things.

One of the questions to players at media day was whether you’d rather give up coffee or social media. Boskovic didn’t hesitate: “Social media. Not giving up coffee.”

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