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Adem Bona set to visit Kentucky on August 28, hopeful for scholarship: “I’m built a little bit different.”

Nine months into his time in the United States, Prolific Prep’s best-kept secret is a secret no more. 2022 five-star center Adem Bona is not only a well-known commodity in basketball recruiting circles, he’s now one of Kentucky’s top frontcourt targets in the rising senior class.

His numbers are consistently solid, but not absurd. The 6-foot-10, 220-pound center out of Turkey averaged 10.7 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.2 blocks in 13 games for Prolific Prep during his junior season in 2020-21. To open the month of July, Bona then averaged 8.4 points (66.7% FG), 3.9 rebounds, 1.9 blocks and 1.