UCLA recruit Shabazz Muhammad will create an enormous advantage in basketball

UCLA recruit Shabazz Muhammad will create an enormous advantage in basketball

Ron Holmes, a USC basketball player, was with a friend in the summer league basketball game in 1982, when he saw his future in the field.

Ser Faye Paige game, Holmes told his friend: “Behold, the number 10? He will be my wife, and we are going to make some All-Americans.”

Shabazz Muhammad is the opportunity to fulfill this prophecy.

Muhammad, Ron and Faye’s 18-year-old son, a 6-foot-6 Swingman is widely regarded as the best or second best high school senior. He is scheduled to begin his college basketball training at UCLA in the autumn, but already thoroughly trained on the home.

shake his family tree and basketballs drop.

Or, as Holmes said, “The sports genes were there.”

Holmes was 1211 points, 20 school in the history of the four seasons at USC, Trojans, and loyalty have asked some of the first personal ground rules for root for UCLA. For example, “I do not do eight clap,” he says. Powder Blue is still out of the closet.

Paige, who changed his name after converting Faye Muhammad and the Muslim faith, played for Long Beach State team that was so good, he says, “We are hardly the Bruins.”

Shabazz’s aunt, Robin Holmes played for Cal State Fullerton. He reminds us that UCLA is “hated” and games for Long Beach, which is the family atmosphere of the dispute.

“Faye was very difficult for a person on the ground,” Robin says diplomatically.

All three played in Pauley Pavilion and won the final game. All are eager to see what Muhammad to begin his career next season has been renewed in the arena.

Faye jokingly blamed his son from school choice “karma”.

“Shabazz was a setback to UCLA jersey when he was younger, and came home one day to find his father had been cut,” UCLA “off,” he says. “I brought it up the other day. I told Ron that he would never have done it over a shirt.”

Holmes says his son’s decision “seemed a little weird”, but blood is thicker than water under the bridge .

“UCLA coaches are all good,” Holmes says.

Holmes, who played El Toro High, taught his son the game is passed down from her parents. Leroy and Ethel Holmes and has contributed to high school.

“It goes much further than Ron and Faye,” says Robin Holmes. “Our mother was the matriarch .. He used to take us out of the school and us”

Robin says he is worried about his nephew: he is too much than his brother

<. P> “Ron does not know the defense, if he bit her ass,” he says. “I tried to work with Ron. It does not help.”