When UCLA basketball coach Mick Cronin attended Harvard-Westlake High School basketball games a season ago, he got to witness the talent he missed out on in Trent Perry. "I realized [at the Harvard-Westlake games he attended],

Mick Cronin wouldn’t share specifics regarding his formula for acquiring talent. The UCLA Bruins men’s basketball head coach certainly dug into that bag of tricks, though, as he wooed six transfers, and a pair of four-star recruits to Westwood in the offseason leading up to his sixth year.

The UCLA men's basketball team made several pivotal additions through the transfer portal this offseason — including former USC guard Kobe Johnson. Johnson transferred to the Bruins from the Trojans as one of the many USC players to leave the program following the departure of former head coach Andy Enfield,