Jordan Ford was sitting down for his final media availability of the G League season when Ray McCallum walked by and yelled at him, “I know who you are (now), keep holding it down, bro.”
McCallum played the 2021 G League season for the Greensboro Swarm, who beat the Agua Caliente Clippers in the final game of the regular season, but he was a draft pick of the Sacramento Kings in 2013. And that meant that Ford, a high-school kid in Sacramento, grew up watching McCallum and got to see him up close at a pro-am McCallum held in the area.