Kentucky Basketball Player’s Mt. Rushmore.
On the Dave and Scott Show on 93.9 the ticket this morning, they were talking about whom you would put on your Mt. Rushmore for UK basketball, football, and UL basketball and football. It was pretty interesting. Some of the callers had good ones; some of the callers had stupid ones.
But we talked about it all day at work. We are avid UK basketball fans so that’s what we talked about. A little about football, but there are so many more football players that I don’t know and we all follow basketball much more closely, so that’s what we talked about.
I sent the question to a bunch of my friends via text asking, who’s on your UK basketball player Mt. Rushmore?
I got lots of replies. Most of them serious but then I also got a couple votes for Gimel Martinez and Todd Sveboda. If the Cats would have played Alabama every game, Gimel might be on mine. He lit those guys up for some reason.
Dan Issell and Jamal Mashburn are unanimous. The other two are pretty varied. I got everything from Alex Groza to Kyle Macy to Antoine Walker. I even got someone considering Tom Payne, the first black player to play for UK. Although that was a milestone, he was never really much of a player and I think he even spent some time in the clink for rape. So he’s out.
It’s hard for me not to put Jack Givens on my Mt. Rushmore simply because he dropped 41 on Duke in the National Title game. And it would be hard to leave Macy off because as one of my friends put it, he was always money. And he was always money.
I got a couple votes for Caywood Ledford, Adolph Rupp and Bill “Mr. Wildcat” Keightly. But we’re sticking to players only.
I got votes for Rex Chapman, Tony Delk, Ron Mercer, Frank Beard, Cotton Nash and a few others. Personally, I find it hard to leave off someone like Chuck Hayes.
But I decided on my four UK Mt. Rushmore players.
Dan Issell, Jamal Mashburn, Kenny Walker and Tayshaun Prince.
With honorable mention going to Jack Givens, Kyle Macy, Chuck Hayes and Frank Beard.
Please comment and leave me your choices for the Mt. Rushmore of Kentucky basketball players.
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gotta stick with Jack Givens, Rex Chapman, Jamal Mashburn, and Dan Issel