The ongoing NBA lockout is resulting in some unintended but interesting effects related to college basketball. This offseason has already produced a handful of ‘alumni games,’ featuring former players of recent vintage, including some at two of the most storied programs in the sport, Kansas and Kentucky, in addition to last week’s Jimmer All-Stars at BYU. Saturday night’s Legends of the Phog in Lawrence was a jam-packed extravaganza of KU hoops that ended in a 111-111 tie as Mario Chalmers nailed a trey at the buzzer (who else?).
You’ll recall that a team called the Kentucky Pros scrimmaged John Calipari‘s Dominican [...]