Brandon Rush left Kansas for the NBA after his junior season in 2008, and never spoke to Jayhawks fans per tradition on Senior Day.
Nine years later — at halftime of Wednesday’s 6 p.m. KU-TCU game — Rush, the 31-year-old Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guard, will speak from the heart to the Allen Fieldhouse faithful during his jersey retirement ceremony.
“I was talking to my wife (Ashlee) about that last night. She asked was I nervous? I am kind of nervous. I really don’t like public speaking, and speaking in front of 16,000 people,” Rush said Tuesday in a teleconference.