De'Aaron Fox's Dad Regarding Lonzo Ball - "My Son Already Ate His Ass Up Twice"
Credit: Kevin C. Cox / Staff
B/R – The Bruins had previously beaten the Wildcats—and at home, no less. Fox, though, outplayed UCLA’s Lonzo Ball in the square-off of one-and-done point guards, racking up 20 points and nine assists to Ball’s 14 points, seven assists and six turnovers.
LaVar Ball, Lonzo’s outspoken father, later told ESPN.com he probably would not take Fox with a top-five pick.
“He can’t mess with ‘Zo,” Ball is quoted as saying. “You can have 40 points and Lonzo can have two points and make the game-winner, and I’m going with him. You had more points, but look at who won the game.”
By the second game… a rumor had leaked into the Kentucky locker room that LaVar Ball had dismissed the Kentucky game as a tune-up for UCLA on the way to the Final Four. He had not, but the belief that he did provided more motivation.
“His dad’s technically not part of the team, but he’s a part of the team,” Fox says. “Saying we’re a tune-up game, it’s like, ‘Yeah, OK. We are going to see.’ It definitely gave us more fuel.
Fox dominated the rematch. He scored Kentucky’s first eight points and hit his first five shots, amassing 39 points in the 86-75 win. Lonzo Ball finished with 10 points, eight assists and four turnovers.
The outcome did little to silence LaVar Ball.
“They came up short, but one game doesn’t define his season,” Ball told ESPN.com. “No one is going to take De’Aaron Fox over him because of one game. It’s about your body of work, and people know what he can do.”
“I don’t want anyone talking for me,” Fox says. “I’ll do it myself.”
And yet, Aaron Fox has seen the results of two head-to-head matchups with the UCLA guard. So, in this case, he backs De’Aaron after all, LaVar Ball-style.
“My son already ate his ass up twice,” Aaron Fox says of Lonzo Ball. “[LaVar] can say what he wants to say. I just tell him to go back and watch the film. That’s it. All that yap, yap, yapping, I don’t even got to respond to that. We played them twice. Twice his son got outplayed. I always tell [De’Aaron], let your game speak for it. You ain’t got to talk. You ain’t got to fuss.”
Dad fight! Such an awesome quote from Aaron Fox (just now realizing as I wrote that, naming your son De’Aaron, such a power move). Hopefully the traction on this quote doesn’t inflate his ego and turn him into a Lavar Ball, but as a one-off, it’s just the perfect chirp. Hey Lavar, scooooreeeeeboarrrddddddd, scooooorreeeeboooooaaaarrrddddd:
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Stats don’t lie, results don’t lie. Big Baller Brand weak right now.
This is also one of the most important things I took away from the article:
Lonzo Ball, for his part, is quiet on the court, De’Aaron Fox says. The rest—meaning, of course, LaVar—is just background noise to be tuned out.
Poor Lonzo and his loudmouth ass face dad.