By LARRY VAUGHT
It’s hard not to be biased toward Kentucky when it comes to the ESPY awards that will be presented Wednesday night starting at 9 on ESPN.
Kentucky’s national championship basketball team has been nominated for the best team award, but will have to beat the Miami Heat, New York Giants, Alabama football, St. Louis Cardinals and the undefeated Baylor women’s basketball team.
That’s not an easy task. But remember UK was 38-2, had the top two picks in the NBA draft in Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist and had six players drafted. The Wildcats were 16-0 in Southeastern Conference regular-season play. One loss came on a buzzer-beating shot at Indiana and the other loss came in the SEC tourney final when one might argue that UK was already focused on winning the NCAA title.
Don’t forget, too, that Davis swept the top honors as the nation’s best freshman, best defender and best overall player. He was even invited to the Olympic tryouts.
It just seems that the combined story lines for Kentucky basketball were the best of any team this year and that’s why the Wildcats should claim the ESPY as the nation’s best team.
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I agree Larry. The Cats totally dominated their sport this season. Only the Baylor women were as impressive IMO. But I won’t hold my breath waiting on ESPN to give any honors to UK. Any organization that hires and continues to employ a guy who won’t even speak the name of the national champions at UK is not likely to give UK any kind of award. I could go into a long list of obvious slams from ESPN directed at UK from their “documentary” about the Texas Western game that they played during the summer signing period every year for a decade to comments about how coaches should avoid taking the UK job. Those are just two of the worst examples of anti-UK bias at ESPN. Keeping Knight and his fellow UK basher, Digger Phelps, on the payroll is also pretty bad. It seems to be a requirement to work at ESPN that you hate UK. They have a long history of bashing UK and kissing ACC rears. They won’t give UK their due. I’d bet on it.
Hi, I respect all your arguments, except that you forget to even MENTION the LA Kings, who were nominated. (don’t you think they should be included? lol)
Although I believe Kentucky will win, I believe LA deserves it. They had the most “magical” playoff run out of all the teams. First SC win in their 45 years of existence. First 8 seed to ever win the Cup. First team to upset the #1, #2, and #3 seeds in the west in the same season, and in dominating fashion. Winning 10 road games in a row with a 10-1 road record overall and overall playoffs record of 16-4, one of the best of all time and a record that dominating is incredibly rare in hockey playoffs.
Where’s the love!!
Well I knew this was coming. A clean sweep. Not one ESPY for anything UK related. That’s ESPN for you. They hate UK. They always have. They started trying to make Duke “America’s Team” from the time they first lit up their network. That meant knocking UK down from the Catbird seat. They’ve been trying to do it since the word go. They are going backwards and I love it. Nothing about ESPN makes me happier than to see their favorites lose and their hated teams (UK) win. Take that Phelps. Take that Knight. Take that Vitale. Yeah Dick is all buddy buddy with Cal but he just wants to be where the action is. It doesn’t erase what he’s done in the past.
ESPN will never give UK a fair shake.