De’Aaron Fox and Malik Monk have yet to play together in a college game, but the backcourt duo has been a long time in the making. At the beginning of the year, I traveled to Katy, Texas and Bentonville, Arkansas to interview De’Aaron and Malik for KSR’s Next Five series, and, even then, when asked what they were looking forward to most at Kentucky, both said playing with each other.
“It’ll be extremely exciting to play with [Malik],” Fox said in February. “I’ve never played with anybody as fast or athletic as me in the same backcourt, so that’s definitely going to be fun.