Aaron Craft - Pro Basketball Player in Italy
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🗓️ 24 March 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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BONUS EPISODE
Aaron Craft is currently playing professional basketball in Italy for Aquila Basket Trento, and lives in Trento, Italy, with his wife and son. Trento is in northern Italy, a little less than three hours from what Craft described as the “epicenter” of the Coronavirus outbreak.
Know for his tenacious defense during his time in college at Ohio State, Aaron was named the 2014 NABC Defensive Player of the Year, the 2013 Big Ten Tournament MVP, and a two-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year in 2012 and 2014.
On this episode of the podcast, we talk to Aaron about what it is like being in Italy right now during the Coronavirus outbreak and how his faith is helping him and his family stay calm in the midst of a very big storm.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Sports Spectrum, the Sports and Faith podcast that brings Jesus back into the conversation. |
| 0:17.5 | Here's your host, Jason Romano. |
| 0:20.3 | Hey, everyone, welcome to Sports Spectrum. I am Jason Romano, our email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. |
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| 0:44.3 | Sportspectrum.com. Check out the website, sportspectrum.com. Today on the show, we bring to you an interview that we recorded just yesterday, March 23rd. Today is March 24th. And this interview is with |
| 0:51.1 | Aaron Kraft. Now, Aaron played his college ball at Ohio State, two-time Big Ten defensive player of the year in 2012 and 2014. |
| 1:00.8 | He was a four-time Big Ten all-defensive team every year he played basketball at Ohio State, |
| 1:08.0 | a two-time academic All-American of the Year in 2013 and 2014, |
| 1:13.9 | and the 2014 NABC National Association of Basketball Coaches defensive player of the year |
| 1:21.1 | in college during his time with the Buckeyes. |
| 1:24.7 | So that's Aaron Kraft, the basketball player. |
| 1:26.8 | He since, after coming out of college, you know, tried his hand at the NBA, did not get |
| 1:32.4 | drafted, played in the D League, which was now the G League for a little while, and it was |
| 1:36.8 | pretty good there, and then took his basketball playing abilities overseas. |
| 1:41.9 | And the reason we have Aaron Kraft on today is because he's currently a pro |
| 1:46.6 | basketball player in Italy. And he joined us for this interview from Italy, from his place in |
| 1:53.7 | Italy. He's currently a member of the Aquila Basket Trento of the Italian Basketball League. |
| 2:00.5 | Trento is where he stationed Trento, Trento, Italy, Trento is where he's stationed Trento, |
| 2:02.5 | Italy, T-R-E-N-T-O. And obviously, we're in such a crazy landscape of life right now with the |
| 2:09.4 | coronavirus outbreak. And Aaron's going through that just as much as we are, if not more, in |
| 2:15.5 | Italy. And so we thought it was important to talk to |
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