”I don’t crave to be in a big market, After last season , there was buzz in Sacramento. Everyone in Sacramento is a Kings fan. If we start making the playoffs ... the entire city is going to go nuts. That’s the difference between a big market and a small one”
Another great quote about fox at 13 years old dominating older high school players.
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One day, Coach O called and told Gaston he had an eighth grader in his high school’s pipeline that he wanted Gaston to see. Gaston thought, An eighth grader? Houston Preps had a team that included under-17 players, but the youngest athletes on those teams were 15 or 16. Coach O’s player was 13.
“There was a buzz around this kid,” Olatunbosun tells me over the phone from the Las Vegas airport. “Someone said, ‘There’s a kid down at the junior high who’s already dunking it.’” Olatunbosun knew he had to go see for himself. It didn’t take long for Coach O to know something special was going on.
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Gaston had a team in a tournament at The Gym in Humble, Texas, a sprawling suburban hoops complex. His new charge peeled himself out of his parents’ car, revealing his scrawny, skinny frame. This can’t be the kid, Gaston thought.
That kid’s name was De’Aaron Fox.
In Fox’s first game, Gaston put the eighth grader on the wing, thinking that would be a good way to assess his game. It didn’t work. Fox kept getting his shots blocked by the bigger, stronger, older players.
Before the team’s second game, Coach O told Gaston, “Put the kid at the point. Put the ball in his hands.”
What happened next changed Fox, Gaston and Olatunbosun’s lives.
“It was special,” Gaston says. “He was 13 years old, out there dominating juniors and seniors in high school.” This scene brings to mind the decades-old legends of Stephon Marbury and LeBron James schooling older players at Adidas ABCD Camp. “It was like something I had never seen,” Gaston adds. “I thought, This kid is probably the best player I’ve ever had the chance to work with.”
“He got to all the spots he wanted to,” Coach O says. “He was a man amongst boys out there, but he didn’t look like a man.”
Coach O remembers how the crowd reacted to Fox’s play, in particular one AAU dad in the crowd.
“I remember the guy next to me said out loud, ‘Who the hell is that?’ referring to De’Aaron. And the dad said, ‘That’s Duke! That’s North Carolina! That’s what a Kentucky kid looks like!’”
I absolutely love Fox and it’s just so refreshing to see a star of his caliber not automatically jumping on the “big market team” train like so many stars seem to do these days”
Supposedly Fox isn’t really even into the whole party scene, he works out and practices like a mad man and LOVES playing video games. He even has his own IT department that travel with him on the road and sets up his SIX monitors etc in his hotel room”
https://www.one37pm.com/strength/sports/the-next-nba-superstar-deaaron-fox
Another great quote about fox at 13 years old dominating older high school players.
“
One day, Coach O called and told Gaston he had an eighth grader in his high school’s pipeline that he wanted Gaston to see. Gaston thought, An eighth grader? Houston Preps had a team that included under-17 players, but the youngest athletes on those teams were 15 or 16. Coach O’s player was 13.
“There was a buzz around this kid,” Olatunbosun tells me over the phone from the Las Vegas airport. “Someone said, ‘There’s a kid down at the junior high who’s already dunking it.’” Olatunbosun knew he had to go see for himself. It didn’t take long for Coach O to know something special was going on.
...
Gaston had a team in a tournament at The Gym in Humble, Texas, a sprawling suburban hoops complex. His new charge peeled himself out of his parents’ car, revealing his scrawny, skinny frame. This can’t be the kid, Gaston thought.
That kid’s name was De’Aaron Fox.
In Fox’s first game, Gaston put the eighth grader on the wing, thinking that would be a good way to assess his game. It didn’t work. Fox kept getting his shots blocked by the bigger, stronger, older players.
Before the team’s second game, Coach O told Gaston, “Put the kid at the point. Put the ball in his hands.”
What happened next changed Fox, Gaston and Olatunbosun’s lives.
“It was special,” Gaston says. “He was 13 years old, out there dominating juniors and seniors in high school.” This scene brings to mind the decades-old legends of Stephon Marbury and LeBron James schooling older players at Adidas ABCD Camp. “It was like something I had never seen,” Gaston adds. “I thought, This kid is probably the best player I’ve ever had the chance to work with.”
“He got to all the spots he wanted to,” Coach O says. “He was a man amongst boys out there, but he didn’t look like a man.”
Coach O remembers how the crowd reacted to Fox’s play, in particular one AAU dad in the crowd.
“I remember the guy next to me said out loud, ‘Who the hell is that?’ referring to De’Aaron. And the dad said, ‘That’s Duke! That’s North Carolina! That’s what a Kentucky kid looks like!’”
I absolutely love Fox and it’s just so refreshing to see a star of his caliber not automatically jumping on the “big market team” train like so many stars seem to do these days”
Supposedly Fox isn’t really even into the whole party scene, he works out and practices like a mad man and LOVES playing video games. He even has his own IT department that travel with him on the road and sets up his SIX monitors etc in his hotel room”
https://www.one37pm.com/strength/sports/the-next-nba-superstar-deaaron-fox
