GARFIELD HEIGHTS, Ohio — Demetrius “Meechie” Johnson Jr.’s arduous spring and summer reached an epiphany last week in a gym. © Matt Goul, cleveland.com/cleveland.com/TNS Demetrius “Meechie” Johnson Jr. is pictured during a 2018 preseason practice at Garfield Heights. The guard committed Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019 to Ohio State. He received another call from Ohio State men’s basketball assistant coach Ryan Pedon, offering encouragement as Johnson rehabilitated the ACL torn five months ago during a second-round district tournament game. All of the big schools checked in with Johnson. Someone from Duke, Michigan State, Kentucky and Miami had contacted Johnson a few times, he said, but Pedon never let up. Perhaps it was his comfort level with the family — first meeting Johnson’s uncle, Juby Johnson, as a graduate assistant at Miami (Ohio) and then coaching his father, Demetrius “Mechie” Johnson Sr., while at Kent State. “He knew this injury would be…
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