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Sources Say Podcast Ep. 95: Nolan Hickman decommits from Kentucky. What's next?

Kentucky Sports Radio Podcast Network

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

KSR's Jack Pilgrim is joined by Shawn Smith of Go Big Blue Country to discuss Nolan Hickman's decommitment from Kentucky and what it means for the program moving forward. Among the highlights: UK currently has no point guards signed for 2021-22 Hickman becomes the first player to back out of a letter of intent under John Calipari What led to the decommitment? Breaking down comments from Hickman's father with KSR Does Kentucky have a replacement (or two) in mind?  How fast does Calipari need to move? What news would make Kentucky fans feel better about the decommitment? Calipari can cast a wide net at the position, but he's got to pull in a few big fish Any other news on the horizon?

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Welcome in to episode 95 of the Sources A podcast. Your go to Kentucky Basketball and recruiting

1:05.6

podcast on the growing KSR podcast network. I am your host, Jack Pilgrim of Kentucky Sports Radio.

1:11.0

And today, I'm happy to be joined once again by Sean Smith of Goby Blue Country. First off,

1:16.6

Sean How the Heck are you? Doing well, Jack. It's a really beautiful day in the state of Kentucky.

1:23.7

How are you? I'm doing great. I got to be honest. We'll kind of reveal a little bit to our

1:30.6

listeners that we got a little, you know, you specifically got a little heads up on something

1:37.7

that was potentially in the works for Friday at some point. And we may or may not have recorded

1:46.4

a preview episode for that thing that was supposedly inevitably going to happen on Friday.

1:54.6

And then the world decided to kind of get turned upside down in the afternoon.

1:59.7

Kind of right when we thought that news was going to break, this other completely random

2:04.8

different other tidbit of news decides to break as Kentucky's only point guard commit in the

2:11.5

class of 2021, the only point guard that was signed on to be on the roster for next season.

2:17.4

Nolan Hickman Jr. decommits from Kentucky and Sean, the reaction that we both had when that

2:24.8

news broke was about as priceless as you could possibly come up with. So before we get into the

2:30.4

nitty gritty and the specifics and how it all unfolded, what was your initial reaction when you got

2:37.2

that text message? Well, I wish I could give you the setting, but I'll keep that to myself,

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