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Malik Monk on smiling in defeat: ‘Winning is on my mind from the jump’

Freshman Malik Monk’s smile on the bench late in Kentucky’s loss at Florida on Saturday drew a rebuke from Coach John Calipari.

“I got on him,” Calipari said on a Southeastern Conference teleconference Monday.

Calipari said Monk smiled in response to Florida students singing “Happy Birthday” to him. Monk turned 19 on Saturday.

“But I said to him, ‘Do you understand you’re at Kentucky,’ Calipari said. “‘That the camera is always on. The mic is always on.’

“And it was a lesson for him.”

The lesson might continue, Calipari suggested.

“I’ll probably put him out in front of the media .