UCLA’s Amari Bailey may be goofy off the court, but freshman courts serious accolades
LOS ANGELES — Amari Bailey always lets his teammates hear it. A high-pitched scream at a random moment. Yodeling as they’re about to step into the shower. It often pierces the silence. It always makes everyone on UCLA’s basketball team laugh. “He’s a whole different person off the court,” teammate Jaylen Clark said, cracking a smile at the memory of the auditory assault. “That kid you see off ...
LOS ANGELES — Amari Bailey always lets his teammates hear it.
A high-pitched scream at a random moment. Yodeling as they’re about to step into the shower.
It often pierces the silence. It always makes everyone on UCLA’s basketball team laugh.
“He’s a whole different person off the court,” teammate Jaylen Clark said, cracking a smile at the memory of the auditory assault. “That kid you see off the court, he acts like he’s 12, if you know what I mean.”
On the court, Bailey acts as if he’s as old as some of those dusty banners hanging inside Pauley Pavilion. He looks so serious that he sometimes has to explain his demeanor.
“I may look checked out or pissed off or reserved,” Bailey
