“He’s just my dad.”
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tournaments and the Final Four game in San Antonio, Texas. Not to mention the brothers-and-sister relationship Simone Scott has with the team. “They look out for me,” she said, mentioning that first-year Tyler Zeller, one of the newest additions to the team, came over to kill a spider in her apartment once. Scott knows that to meet people’s standards, she has a lot to live up to. But rather than reject her identity, she has accepted her father’s notoriety and how it affects public perception of her. “I do think people think the only reason I got in here is because of my dad,” she said. “But I’m OK with that. If they want to think that, go ahead. I know it’s not true.” So say what you will about Simone Scott — just don’t ask her for basketball tickets.
BELOW: A young Simone Scott (left) poses with her family. “[My parents] thought everyone would expect me to play basketball,” she said, “so I did ballet and tap, and when I picked a sport, I did tennis.”
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