Sitting in a foldable metal chair, Larry Nance Sr. observed his son’s basketball practice with something peculiar on his head.
To most a Lakers hat in the team’s El Segundo gym isn’t anything to pause about — but for a three-time all-star who fell to L.A. in a pair of playoff meetings, it was something few could have predicted to see.
“When I was playing in Phoenix, the Lakers were our tough team that came through and beat the crap out of us all the time,” he said at Lakers practice on Wednesday.
Indeed, Nance’s Suns went just 11-24 against the purple and gold, but that hasn’t stopped him at all from supporting his son, Larry Nance Jr.