It’s not uncommon for basketball players’ compression shorts to be visible near their knees. But there was something a little different about De’Aaron Fox’s when he was a rookie out of Kentucky in 2017.



Around the knee, his had a little more room than most. Fox’s 19 year-old body still had growing to do, and it made the shorts that are form fitting a little loose around his knees.



That’s not the case these days. Fox’s trainer since the eighth grade, Chris Gaston, also became his agent last season. He said he’s watched Fox, 21, go from a “string bean to a grown man.”



“Yeah, he’s putting a little meat on his bones,” Gaston said. “His legs are even getting a little thicker. At first he was all twigs, now he’s starting to fill out.”



That’s also to say Fox is stronger heading into his third season. Which means the player who many believe is the fastest in...