Perhaps a visit to the Drake mansion will likely be just what John Calipari and Kentucky basketball might want to reverse the show’s final trajectory.
The Wildcats practiced on a court at the rapper’s luxury home in Toronto on Friday as a part of a pre-season trip to Canada, and Calipari even posted a video on Twitter detailing the team relaxing by the pool while the 64-year-old coach placed on sunglasses – joking that “I’m not getting in.
“It’s okay, we’re at Drake’s,” Calipari said within the video. “Relaxing. I actually wish you were with us.
Then the long-time Kentucky coach – the architect of this system, which is currently in “complete disarray”, in keeping with a Kentucky Sports Radio host last month – panned the camera across the property, saying: “But when I’m going… what’s it, is it a hotel?”
As a substitute, it was Drake’s mansion where the players were staying practiced somersaults and jumping into the pool before posing for a gaggle photo.
And inside a 50,000 square foot property that in keeping with CNNdesigned by Ferris Rafauli, it stands on a basketball court that reflects NBA regulation size.
One other movie captured the Wildcats’ bouncing basketballs on a court with an owl logo from Drake’s October’s Very Own brand in the middle, regardless that Drake was out of the mansion and on tour, in keeping with Kentucky Sports Radio.
Kentucky’s trip to Canada centered across the GLOBL Jam tournament where the Wildcats represented Team USA in a tournament that also included Canada, Germany and Africa.
“I’m not the one taking the team to the Bahamas, I’m putting the opposite teams together knowing we’re winning to 30, we’re constructing the team,” Calipari he told the university’s website ahead of the event. “These are 23-year-old teams. Which in Europe means they’re professionals. And these are bands which have been together. Last yr (on this event) Baylor went 1-4.
However the Wildcats beat Germany by eight points on Wednesday.
The next day, they defeated Canada with a 24-point victory.
They’ll play their final match before the medal round on Saturday, followed by one other match – and possibly a gold medal match, at this rate – the subsequent day.