Former Kentucky Wildcats basketball star Karl-Anthony Towns winds up with the Miami Heat in a proposed five-team blockbuster trade from Bleacher Report.
At the start of last season, NBA rosters were populated with 29 former Kentucky Wildcats, the most of any college program. Kentucky has been pumping out pros since John Wall went first overall in 2010, but this isn’t a quantity over quality situation, as some of the best players in the league used to call Rupp Arena home.
It is hard to imagine the NBA without Devin Booker, who is a four-time All-Star, a two-time All-NBA player, and one of the best scorers in the game. But while he seems confident on the floor nowadays, there was a time when he didn’t think he would make it to the league.
The University of Kentucky has long been a hotbed for NBA talent to develop, although one of its biggest stars never made much of a name for himself in
We are over 10 years removed from the 2015 NBA Draft, the first of three consecutive years in which the Los Angeles Lakers held the No. 2 overall pick.
John Calipari has trained, coached, and produced some top-tier talent for the NBA across his NCAA coaching career, especially during his 15-year tenure with the Kentucky Wildcats. A former Kentucky Wildcat, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, is currently leading the OKC Thunder in their 3-3 tied series of the NBA Finals against the Indiana Pacers.
The former Cats are thriving this season. The Kentucky Wildcats have continually produced some of the best players at the highest level in basketball. This season is no different, as both Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Karl-Anthony Towns have been terrific for their respective teams.
The 2014-15 Kentucky Wildcats boasted one of the most dominant teams of all time, posting an undefeated regular season behind a star-studded roster. But as…
Donte DiVincenzo’s departure from the New York Knicks in the blockbuster trade involving Karl-Anthony Towns has sparked conversations about the dynamics within the Knicks’ roster and DiVincenzo’s mindset heading into the 2024-25 NBA season.
It has been almost 10 years since Karl-Anthony Towns and Kentucky ran through the 2014-15 college basketball season unbeaten until falling to Wisconsin in the Final Four.
KAT spoke about the Kentucky brotherhood on Paul Finebaum’s show Kentucky is a brotherhood. We heard that a lot during the last several years with so many Kentucky guys going to the NBA, but it’s a sentiment worth repeating.
Recently, the college basketball world received a jolt to the senses when it was announced that Kentucky basketball head coach John Calipari would be departing the program in order to (presumably) take his talents to the open Arkansas Razorbacks job, although that last part has not been officially confirmed yet.
It is hard to believe that only 20 teams entered the NCAA tournament undefeated. It is harder to believe that an undefeated team would go on to win the tournament seven times, and not once since 1976.