With the Denver Nuggets’ first championship, Nuggets star Jamal Murray etched his name on the long list of former Kentucky Basketball players who won an NBA ring after Lexington. After beating the Miami Heat in five, Murray became the seventeenth Kentucky Wildcat to win the NBA championship as a player and the second of John Calipari’s crop of NBA talent out of Lexington.
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pic.twitter.com/vSBVz7FMzTAnthony Davis, Rajon Rondo, and Jodie Meeks are other recent NBA champions from the University of Kentucky.