LJ BB: JD 'in the NBA'

"Famous people" Jacob Duffy hanging

after the girls game at Grossmont.

(Photos by Ed Piper)

By Ed Piper

Viking guard Jacob Duffy attended the La Jolla girls basketball team's summer league game at Grossmont High Tuesday afternoon, July 11.

Obviously, the animal magnetism of someone on the Viking baller team drew him to that outpost toward the east end of the county.

"Famous people here. What are you up to?" inquired a visitor after the game. Duffy and some members of the Viking girls team and their mothers were standing outside the entrance to the "New Gym".

"He's in the NBA," said one of the girls, indicating Duffy, a rising junior who will see significant minutes in the new edition of the La Jolla boys team next fall.

The observer looked skeptical. "Yeah, right."

"You say he can't do it?" countered the girl.

"Animal magnetism" candidate

Maxwell Lloyd, a member of

the Viking girls team.

 



"You said he was in the NBA. I don't think so," came the reply.

"I'm going to play in the WNBA," said Skyla Loux of the girls team that had just played inside.

"That's assumed, if I'm going to cover your games now," said the visitor, carrying his notepad.

Loux's mom wasn't there, as she was last week.

Maxwell Lloyd, a rising junior on the girls team, was there with her family member.

Another member of the girls team was there, but the sportswriter didn't recognize her right off the bat.

After the others dispersed toward the parking lot to return to San Diego, Duffy walked with the reporter.

"It's your last game of the summer tomorrow night at Montgomery, right?" said the media person.

"Yep."

"I hope to see you there. Good luck."