Perhaps he shouldn’t have even been on the court at all, UK basketball commitment Tyrese Maxey said after his team’s second game at the Nike Peach Jam event last week.
Maxey — a 6-foot-3 point guard and an early pledge for the Cats’ 2019 class — injured his ankle during the USA Basketball U18 team’s gold medal run at the FIBA championships last month, and it still wasn’t fully recovered.
John Calipari texted Maxey at the beginning of the week and said he might want to sit out. The UK coach told his top recruit he had nothing more to prove.