When De’Aaron Fox was a sophomore in high school, he made a vision board for his room that included his target grade point average, point and assist goals, and pictures of his favorite players in the NBA. Also on the board? Pictures upon pictures of Kentucky basketball during the John Calipari era.
“I’m not being biased, but Kentucky is the best basketball program in the country,” De’Aaron told me. “Every kid wants to go there. When you start watching college basketball, sometimes you’re too young to know what’s going on, but once you start to understand what’s going on, every kid at some point their life has wanted to go to Kentucky.