When Eric Paschall earned the biggest honor of his NBA career to date, the Warriors forward was playing video games.
Paschall learned in September he made the NBA’s All-Rookie First Team while participating in a Madden NFL tournament.
“I was on Zoom for the Madden tournament, and I think I just got a notification on my phone,” Paschall recalled in a video conference call with reporters Friday.
“And then I just got a whole bunch of messages.”
Paschall called his father, Juan, and then heard good friend Donovan Mitchell “screaming on the phone, saying congrats” when he called the Utah Jazz star back after the Madden tournament.
“That was pretty much it, and then I continued my day and finished playing video games for the day,” Paschall said.
That’s not so different from how many 24-year-olds have passed the time in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic holds a tighter grip on the…
