It was the type of scene that would have made any mother proud. Brandon Knight had been named the Gatorade national high school basketball player of the year. And if that weren’t enough, seven-time NBA all-star Alonzo Mourning visited Knight’s school to hand him the award. But when Turgenia Knight looks back on that moment from last spring, she doesn’t talk so much about the award itself.
Walter Cornett, of Glendale, Kentucky, is the owner and operator of Walter’s Wildcat World. He founded WildcatWorld.com in 1998 making it one of the oldest Kentucky basketball fan sites in operation today.