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Arizona basketball: Sean Miller’s uncle helped the Wildcats recruit Kadeem Allen

Arizona Wildcats fans have to thank Uncle Joe for helping Arizona bring Kadeem Allen to the desert.

It was Uncle Joe, head coach Sean Miller’s uncle, that led Miller to recruit Allen.

“I had an Uncle Joe, my dad's brother, who was the long-time high school football coach at New Hanover High School, lived in Wilmington, North Carolina forever,” Miller detailed. “And he passed away a few years back, but Kadeem was one of my Uncle Joe's favorite kids.

“And he called me and told me. And he would get on my dad about, ‘I'm telling you this kid, Kadeem Allen’.