Two beacons of basketball in the Bluegrass are back together and it feels so good.
Chuck Hayes, mistaken once by a dumb blogger as Keldon Johnson’s Dad, shared the following photo on Instagram alongside his former Kentucky head coach, Orlando “Tubby” Smith. For Kentucky fans of a certain era, hard-nosed defense combined with heart and hustle from an undersized big like Chuck Hayes defined what Kentucky basketball was all about.
This picture have not have been recently taken. Regardless, Hayes’ post gives us an opportunity to relive some of that combo’s great moments from the early 00s on a #FlashbackFriday.