Ball, nearing the end of his rookie season with the Lakers, said Friday in response to the widening scandal threatening college basketball that "everybody's getting paid anyway, you might as well make it legal."
Alford didn't take even a full second to respond after he was relayed the quote from his former star player Sunday afternoon following UCLA's 80-76 loss to Colorado at the Coors Events Center.
Ball told reporters he wasn't paid because his father wasn't interested in inducements while building the family's Big Baller Brand shoe and apparel label while he was at UCLA. But Lakers teammate and former Utah standout Kyle Kuzma was among the players identified as having been paid by an agent while in college in documents obtained by Yahoo Sports.