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If the press could manage to be more optimistic about a team with a 40-year old point guard, a 36-year old shooting guard, and a new coach, who hasn’t had a winning record since 2009, I haven’t seen it (at least not lately). New Head Coach of the Los Angeles Lakers Byron Scott: Welcome home! [...]

Later on this month, Reebok brings back the Kamikaze II of Shawn Kemp fame in a colorway inspired by the University of Kentucky school colors. After signing a letter-of-intent with the University of Kentucky, Shawn Kemp couldn’t play in his freshman year of college since he didn’t get the minimum score requirement on the SAT [...]

*We thought this post was extra fitting for publishing today given that July 1st is Canada Day.* [...]

August 28, 2012 – Allen Moll As the NCAA season is rapidly approaching, the speculation is starting to build as to whether Coach John Calipari and his newest crop of fabulous freshmen can once again climb the mountaintop and be the first repeat NCAA Champions since the Florida Gators in ’06 and ’07. While Billy [...]

April 18, 2012 – Allen Moll We all pretty much knew it was coming, but it became official Tuesday evening that the entire Kentucky Wildcats starting five players, consisting of 3 freshmen and 2 sophomores have officially declared for the 2012 NBA Draft.  It was a no brainer that the nation’s best team, fresh off [...]

March 19, 2012 – Allen Moll By now, even the most casual college basketball fan has heard of University of Kentucky’s fabulous freshman Anthony Davis. He’s already won the SEC Freshman and Defensive Player of the Year Awards and even has a good chance of winning the Naismith Award, given annually to college basketball’s top player. While [...]

March 5, 2012 – R.S. De France Los Angeles Lakers 5-time champion, 14-time All-Star, and 2-time Finals’ MVP Kobe Bryant has said repeatedly this season that he wants to go out winning a 6th NBA championship. But how can that happen with this Lakers’ team, one of the best defensive teams, one of the worst [...]

November 28, 2011 – Allen Moll With the former #1 ranked North Carolina Tarheels unexpectantly losing for the first time all season, to an upstart UNLV squad in the LV Invitational Tourney, the University of Kentucky Wildcats are primed to ascend to the top spot when the next Top 25 polls come out. [...]

September 3, 2010 – The Hoop Doctors The Hoop Doctors Kevin Burke recently had a chance to chat with Brandon Knight, who last year was one of the top high school basketball players in the country, and this year is the newest member of the University of Kentucky basketball program. He is the highly recruited [...]

August 24, 2010 – Kevin Burke Last year, Kentucky’s John Wall was by far the most talked about player in the land. The hype surrounding him coming out of high school was unprecedented. It was LeBron James straight-out-of-high-school type of buzz. That buzz followed him all the way to the first overall pick in this [...]