Antonio Reeves knows better than most what it feels like to take on a massive minutes load. Before he even got to Kentucky, when he was a junior at Illinois State in 2021-22, he averaged 34.9 minutes per outing across a 33-game season. To help put that in perspective, during the John Calipari era, only three Wildcats played more minutes per game than Reeves did in his final season with the Redbirds: Brandon Knight (35.9 MPG) in 2010-11 and Jamal Murray (35.2 MPG) and Tyler Ulis (36.8 MPG) in 2015-16.
Reeves isn’t exactly close to those numbers across his first season with Kentucky (he’s averaging 27.