John Calipari is working hard to keep Kevin Knox in Lexington for another season.
As SEC Country reports…Calipari’s recruiting pitch to Knox might’ve worked.
Check out these comments from Knox’s dad:
“Here’s what it looks like if you come back. I’d love to have you,” Calipari told Knox during a meeting in Lexington, his father Kevin Knox Sr. told SEC Country on Tuesday. “He said, ‘Man, we want you to come back, but at the end of the day, if you end up leaving, we will not have been able to see the best of Kevin Knox in Lexington. That is yet to come if you decide to leave.’ ”
Knox flew home to Tampa, Fla., over the weekend to discuss with his family whether to return to Kentucky for a sophomore season or declare for the 2018 NBA Draft, where he is widely projected to be a late lottery pick. Father and son concluded that they couldn’t make a final decision without first consulting Calipari and UK assistant Kenny Payne, so they flew back to Lexington for a meeting with two men who coached 31 draft picks in their first eight seasons here.
“Had a very good meeting,” Knox Sr. said. “If Kevin was going to go ahead and go, we would’ve announced and been gone already, kind of the same way Deandre Ayton, Marvin Bagley, Miles Bridges, Trae Young did. They did it fairly quickly. The reason we haven’t is he really is weighing his options as far as coming back. We’re going along the same lines as we did our college recruiting: each one of the five [head coaches] came in at the last minute and did a last presentation: Mike Krzyzewski, Leonard Hamilton, of course Calipari and KP, Roy Williams and Cuonzo Martin.
“So we’re going along those same lines. We needed to have that meeting so we as a family can make that final decision. It won’t go past Friday.”
