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Is Mark Pope About to Land Serbian Star Nikola Kusturica? + Practice Intel | Sources Say

Kentucky Sports Radio Podcast Network

KSR

Sports

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2026

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Is Mark Pope on the cusp of reeling in his next big fish? Sources Say is ready to go LIVE to talk through the latest with Serbian star Nikola Kusturica and Kentucky‘s push to get it across the finish line. How close are we to a commitment and what are the potential snags, if any? And, more importantly, what kind of impact can he make in Lexington if the Wildcats can pull this one off? Jack Pilgrim and Zack Geoghegan break it all down LIVE on the KSR YouTube channel. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the podcast.

0:08.8

It's your go-to Kentucky basketball podcast on the KSR podcast,

0:12.5

that we're presented by our friends at BetMGM.

0:15.3

I'm your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

0:17.7

Very excited to be joined once again by the one and only. Zach Gay,

0:21.6

the Triple G. How you doing about it? Doing great. Glad to make a matinee appearance on a

0:27.9

random sources say. We got some fun stuff to talk about today with one European 17-year-old. I'm

0:34.0

excited to get into it. Yeah, just for transparency, the reason why we're doing it at 3 o'clock is because I'm terrified that stuff's going to be popping off here in the next couple hours.

0:43.5

And I just wanted to, while we had a little bit of the dust settled a little bit and a time to take a deep breath and regroup for a second, I wanted to kind of just get what's out there.

0:55.0

What's the latest as things stand right now, 3.06 p.m. here on this Wednesday because

1:00.8

all bets are off this point forward because I do think that we're kind of rounding third and heading home in his recruitment.

1:07.3

And in, you know, in terms of a college decision and where one Nicola Kustarica

1:14.4

will be attending.

1:15.9

You want to know how I've kind of figured out an easy way to remember it?

1:22.0

How?

1:22.3

His last name?

1:23.3

It's basically Costa Rica, but Costa Rica.

1:26.9

With a ch.

1:26.9

With a ch at the end.

1:28.2

So that's how I've been remembering it.

1:29.8

So his name pops up on my radar Friday early afternoon.

1:36.1

So I'd heard of him before, but there was a lot of Gonzaga buzz, a lot of UCLA buzz, Arizona,

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