Kentucky guard John Wall is cleared … to be awesome

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October 29, 2009

Faked you out! Oooh. Totally got you. You thought I was going to say
John Wall was cleared to play for Kentucky. Alas, he is not. But according to the AP’s report on Kentucky’s Blue-White scrimmage last night, Wall is still really, really good at basketball. Just thought you should know:

John Wall took off on two feet, pulled his left arm behind
his head and threw down a tomahawk dunk. Moments later, the Kentucky freshman
point guard took an inbounds pass and beat everybody down the court for a layup.

Yes,
Wall scored 25 points in the team’s annual intrasquad scrimmage. He’s good.
Immediately afterward, Kentucky coach John Calipari was forced to
answer John Wall-related questions that had to do with topics less fun
to discuss than just how good Wall is looking in these exhibitions. He
had to deal with the fact that merely two weeks before Kentucky’s home
opener, Wall is still not cleared to play. The issue arises from Wall’s relationship with former AAU coach Brian Clifton, who was registered as an agent while he coached Wall. This isn’t a major deal; if guilty, Wall would miss three or four games at the most. But it does clearly annoy John Calipari all the same:

“There’s probably 10-15 kids going through the same thing that
John’s going
through, but he’s been cleared in every way,” Calipari said. “The other
stuff
they’re looking at, they’re looking at with a lot of kids. Asked to
clarify his answer, Calipari bristled for a moment. “There’s all kinds
of different levels of clearance and like I said,
there’s 10-15 kids going through the same thing,” he said. “Let’s talk
about
the scrimmage.”

But the scrimmage is boring. Let’s talk about eligibility
issues. There’s literally nothing remotely banal about the NCAA’s
approach to student eligibility. It’s so very exciting … *yawns*. Woo. What time is it? Did someone turn the heat on in here? I suddenly feel so very … sleepy.

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