Aaron Holiday says his sister was the best basketball player of all of his siblings growing up. 'But most people wouldn’t know that because they didn’t see her play,' the NBA guard says. (WBUR)
When Aaron Holiday’s name was called at last year’s NBA Draft, basketball fans were already familiar with his family. His brother, Jrue, is a guard for the New Orleans Pelicans and a member of the NBA’s all-defensive team. His other brother, Justin, is a six-year NBA veteran. Their parents, Toya and Shawn, both played college basketball at Arizona State. But those fans may not have known about Toya and Shawn’s other child: Lauren.
"Obviously, Justin and Jrue, being the oldest, they were the team captains," Lauren says."And then Aaron and I fell into whoever's team that day." And Lauren says playing with her brothers didn't diminish her confidence — it had the opposite effect. On the court, Lauren was a lockdown defender. And that figure-it-out, I-got-that mentality? Lauren was like that off the court, too."I think about this — she was sort of the mommy of everyone," Toya says."So if we traveled, we were going somewhere, Lauren would be the one that will remember to bring snacks. And she just wouldn't bring snacks for herself. She'd have snacks for everybody else. She was always like that. And she always wanted to be Aaron's mom.
Lauren started getting recruited to play in college. And one school stuck out: UCLA. It was close to home. Her brother Jrue had gone there. She liked the coach. In Lauren’s mind, it was a done deal. "I was always nervous watching her play because she played so hard," Aaron says."She just goes out there and plays hard, no matter what."Off The Roller Coaster
"We were playing [U]SC, and I got screened," Lauren says."And I kind of got tripped on the screen. And I fell back and hit my head." "Oh, I felt terrible," Lauren says."It was terrible. Like, the worst thing ... ever. Because I went through so much prior to actually retiring. Just, like, working out when I was not feeling good because I was trying to prove to people that — I don’t even know — just that I could do it. And so, when the time came, I felt like I lost my identity. I felt like, ‘Now, I’m going to be the loser in my family.
"I’m not gonna sugarcoat anything, because that’s just not who I am — it was hard, and I expressed that to whoever asked," Lauren says."I felt like everything was just forced upon me. Like, things were happening to me that I didn’t want to happen."While all this was going on, Aaron was getting recruited to play college basketball. And one of the colleges on his short list was UCLA.
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