Kentucky Sports Radio
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
[Moderated by Matt Jones, Drew Franklin and Tyler Thompson]
Hello, friends. Well, we all knew it was coming. The inevitable flurry of rumors furthered by chattering mouths after the glow of the Championship fades. We here at Kentucky Sports Radio, ever-vigilant to the truth, would like to provide you a quick rundown of the many rumors floating around as of today, April 6, and dispel any which may not be substantial. So let’s get right into the Rumor Smackdown, shall we? Bring on them rumors! Bring ‘em!
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Rumor: John Calipari to leave Kentucky and coach the New York Knicks.
Status: False. Though John Calipari has mentioned that he will attend some NBA games this spring, he told ESPN’s Andy Katz on Wednesday that “Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave? We just won the national title.” He also tweeted Wednesday for the Big Blue Nation to “Relax. Enjoy the championship. I’m not going anywhere.”
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Rumor: Michael Kidd-Gilchrist will enter the NBA Draft in 2012.
Status: Unconfirmed. While Kidd-Gilchrist has hinted that he might prefer to stay all four years at Kentucky, detractors claim the money-earning potential of a top spot in the draft will be hard to turn down. In postgame interviews after Kentucky’s February 25 win over Vanderbilt, the forward told press “I’m graduating here.” Kidd-Gilchrist’s mother has been noncommittal in tweets, saying that the decision is “whatever Michael wants.”
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Rumor: Billy Donovan Called John Calipari the morning after the Championship to “tell him what to expect.”
Status: True. John Calipari tweeted early Tuesday morning that his first call of the day was from the Florida coach, who offered “advice on all the aftermath that I will have to deal with by winning a title.” Allegedly, this advice also included the sound recommendation that “whenever anyone asks you anything, tell them no. Or tell them yes. Whatever you want, it doesn’t matter. Just say something and then sort it all out later when you decide whatever you want to do. It’s not like anyone really thinks Gary Parrish knows anything anyway.”
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Rumor: In 1990, sought-after New Hampshire high school basketball recruit Nerlens Noel won a Grammy award from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for his work on Quincy Jones’ collaborative album Back on the Block, which also featured Ella Fitzgerald, Miles Davis, Chaka Khan and Dionne Warwick.
Status: False. You’re thinking of Big Daddy Kane, who also had a very distinctive “hi-top fade” hairstyle popular among hip-hop artists in the late eighties. Noel would be born in Everett, Massachusetts four years later, the same year Kane would release his penultimate album to date, Daddy’s Home.
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Rumor: Sophomore Terrence Jones has been approached by a young woman who has told him that he is the only person who can rescue a mystical child from the clutches of a demon by recovering a magic dagger.
Status: False. This is the plot of the 1986 Eddie Murphy movie The Golden Child.
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Rumor: Nighttime occurs every night because Anthony Davis reaches up and puts his hand over the sun.
Status: False. Nighttime occurs due to the sun’s position in correlation to the earth’s rotation.
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Rumor: John Calipari to leave Kentucky and Coach the New York Knicks.
Status: Just let it go already. Okay?
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April 6th, 2012 at 2:18 pm
Let’s be honest, though. AD could lower the Sun’s offensive efficiency.
April 6th, 2012 at 2:21 pm
No, YOU let it go C.M.!
April 6th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
totally would have used this pic….
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April 6th, 2012 at 2:24 pm
sorry for all that mess
April 6th, 2012 at 2:26 pm
Stupid post.
April 6th, 2012 at 2:32 pm
The AD/sun comment was hysterical. I feel like AD jokes are becoming the new chuck Norris jokes lol
April 6th, 2012 at 2:49 pm
were gonna suck next yr. lose 7 guys and get 4 woo!!
April 6th, 2012 at 2:54 pm
Willis- you must be a tard fan. If you don’t believe in Cal by now, you are a lost cause.
April 6th, 2012 at 2:56 pm
UK football scrimmage for those that still have faith: http://www.uksportsinfo.com/2012/04/wildcat-football-looking-to-first-major-scrimmage/
April 6th, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Listin to me. 8. We won a championship. And i still don’t beliveve in Cal.. Hes going to the knicks.
lineup nxt yr.
pg- harrow
sg-archie
sf-hood
pf.wiltjer
c. cauley
ouch….. Head coach- Travis Ford
April 6th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
We lose players every year and we make it to at least the elite 8. You are not a UK fan.
April 6th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Willis- your stupidity is astounding. Good luck navigating life.
April 6th, 2012 at 3:05 pm
Willis’s Wonderlic score is a 2. Cal isn’t leaving until Brad is out of high school. Quit posting about him leaving until after his son is in college. Shabazz and Noel will come. Should know by now that other coaches and media outlets will choose to talk about Cal leaving, because it hurts his recruiting players…. DUH. And Willis, this year your team overachieved, next year they underachieve, you Beatch troll.
April 6th, 2012 at 3:09 pm
I hate humor
April 6th, 2012 at 3:15 pm
I’m a uk fan peeps just very concerned.
April 6th, 2012 at 3:38 pm
Coach Cal just continues to separate himself from every public person with the “I’m not going anywhere” statement. Unequvical,
No coy, ego ploy to feed speculation. If he says it count on it. How rare is that? If he had said Ant pulls down the sun, I ‘ m with him.
April 6th, 2012 at 3:47 pm
9 – I don’t know how anyone can have faith in Joker. This team is steadily getting worse, not better, and don’t tell me that beating TN is the turning point or proof because they were horrible last year. I miss PawPaw Brooks…
April 6th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Correct you are #17. For his next trick, Mitch should hire a football coach.
April 6th, 2012 at 4:31 pm
lebron james wears anthony davis pajamas
April 6th, 2012 at 4:32 pm
Willis that starting five is good enough to beat Louisville next year.
April 6th, 2012 at 4:40 pm
15 – UK fans never use the word “peeps”….
April 6th, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Rumor: I just wasted 5 minutes of my life reading this drivel, convinced that at some point along the way something would be written that would make a valid point.
Status: 100 % true on the waste of time portion, completely false on the ‘having a point’ idea.
April 6th, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Does anyone know if Bobby Petrino ate ( bad choice of words ) at Porcini ??? Must be something in the water.
April 6th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Rumor: KSR, being the media outlet to still rehashing the Cal to Knicks talk, decides to stop doing it.
Status: False, they just can’t help themselves
Rumor: KSR decides to stop for a few days posting opinions on which UK player is staying or going.
Status: False, they just can’t help themselves
April 6th, 2012 at 11:14 pm
Nerlens reminds me of the singer Cameo who sang “Word up”.
April 8th, 2012 at 4:14 am
Is that two Arrested Development references?