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Kentucky basketball's Johnson gets loose by changing out of tight shoes

UK coach John Calipari's postgame news conference following a win over UNC Greensboro. Jon Hale, Louisville Courier Journal

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Keldon Johnson hit the floor, John Calipari said, as if he had been shot by a sniper. He lay there a long time, a portrait in pain, pulling his Kentucky basketball jersey up to shield his face and filling Rupp Arena to the rafters with anxiety.

When your best player has to be helped from the floor, and then limps straight toward the locker room, the scenarios start at worrisome and only get worse.