Just a few minutes into the conversation, and you realize it still gets away from you. For example, John Calipari was recalling his soul-strangling moment from 12 years ago this very month, when he and then-Nets owner Lewis Katz famously emerged from that pink, architectural nightmare known as Miami Arena — poor Cal still feeling the weight of that garment bag and a 3-17 record as he lugged them through the Florida sunshine, to a limo that would drive him away from his NBA coaching career forever.
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.