SACRAMENTO, CALIF. ? He’s not always the court jester. Just most of the time.

Such as the times Scot Pollard painted his toenails every imaginable color during his college romp at Kansas. Or when he proposed to future wife Mindy at the school’s version of midnight madness.

And there are the oil-burning, vintage Cadillac convertibles he cruises in  top down  to chill out. The Megadeth concerts, his ever-changing hair and the one-liners he fires as a cog in the Kings’ machine.

And when he brought home his own bobblehead doll, his 3-year-old daughter, Lolli, grab-bed onto the thing, peered at her 6-foot-11 pop, who started to do the bobble dance, and declared, wide-eyed, “Daddy, there’s two of you!”

Imagine that reality.

With his beloved Jayhawks in the Final Four this week in Atlanta, Pollard hopes to be in town to cheer and visit with his dear friend Roy Williams, the Kansas coach who impacted his life. The Kings play at the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday, so talk about delicious timing.

“I’d love to see Kansas play,” Pollard said. “Roy Williams is a great man. He’s definitely a father figure to me. I can’t say that I can ever be just like him because he never sleeps and he’s too strong of character, but he’s someone you’d want your kid to be like.”

Williams provided guidance, an ear and some discipline for a young man who’d recently lost his real father. Pearl Pollard died when his son was a high school junior in San Diego.

Scot Pollard grew up idolizing his pop, a legendary basketball banger and interior scorer at the University of Utah who, with Utah Jazz owner Larry Miller and former NBA star Danny Ainge, was among the inaugural class of inductees voted into the State of Utah Hall of Fame in 1999.

Pollard has tattoos that bear his dad’s name, and he wears jersey No. 31, the same pops wore as a player.

“I was going to attend Arizona (out of high school), then I took a (recruiting) trip to Kansas, and it felt right,” Pollard said. “It was somewhere I needed to be, and coach Williams was a man I needed to be around.

“He was old school, like my dad, and I needed that. He was someone I could talk to. He’s helped me a lot. When I have troubles, I can still talk to him.”

Pollard was among the many nervous Jayhawks fans who a year ago dreaded the idea that Williams would actually bolt Kansas when the coach was being courted by North Carolina. He remained, Kansas is still a force and Carolina fell off the national map this season.

“I told coach that if he left Kansas, I was putting my house in Lawrence up for sale,” Pollard said with a laugh.