'Everything I do is for him.' UCLA's Dylan Andrews gets relentlessness from his 'Pops.'
One of the first voices Dylan Andrews hears every morning belongs to his godmother.
At 7:45 a.m., barring the rare idle weekend with no game or big homework assignment that needs completing, she will call the UCLA point guard to deliver the same message.
It is time to move through the day with a purpose. The purpose starts now.
They're the same sorts of words Andrews once heard from "Pops," the man no single word or phrase could encapsulate.
He was a father figure. Role model. Mentor. Confidant. Best friend.
"That was my like everything, man," Andrews said.
Pops drove Andrews to the gym three hours before youth basketball practices, telling him if he was on time it meant he was late. Pops took him to the apartment complexes he owned, showing the boy how good he had it by comparison. Pops was even there when the teenager who was technically his grandson took his official visit to UCLA, oohing and aahing at every Bruins
