Silvio De Sousa’s mom, Janina, and dad, Jean Jacques, eagerly answered a video call from their son on Monday night.
“I was just telling them, ‘You guys need to figure out a way to get your stuff ready to leave,’ ’’ De Sousa said Tuesday, informing his parents that he had the money to fly them from their home in Luanda, Angola to San Antonio, Texas, for the upcoming Final Four, which Silvio will be participating in with the Kansas Jayhawks.
“At first they thought I was playing. But longer in the conversation they started to believe I was telling the truth.