There hasn’t been and might not ever be a cooler player to put on the Kentucky uniform than John Wall. John Calipari’s prized recruit of his first season at the helm of Kentucky basketball single-handedly transformed a program whose credibility was in sharp decline back to the premiere echelon of college basketball.
During that 2009-2010 season, DeMarcus Cousins was awesome, Patrick Patterson was beloved, and Cal helped orchestrate the whole thing, but John Wall was top dog. He created a Big Blue Nationwide phenomenon with a five-second dance during his descent from the Rupp Arena rafters that to some fans felt like a descent from literal Heaven.