If you follow Kentucky basketball recruiting, you’ve heard five-star prospects share with Jack Pilgrim or Zack Geoghegan say, “Kentucky is my dream school.” It happens so often that some now consider it a bad omen, an audible kiss of death for UK’s chances. One of those five-star prospects that said it and meant it was Tyrese Maxey.
Long before he was a superstar for the Philadelphia 76ers, Maxey was a hoop-head watching college basketball in Texas. When he saw Derrick Rose running and gunning for John Calipari at Memphis, Maxey knew that was the coach he wanted to play for.