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Racial slur written on a former University of Kentucky, Princeton High basketball player's car

Woodford County Public Schools officials are investigating an incident in which a racial slur targeted a former University of Kentucky basketball player over the weekend.

Erik Daniels, who played at Princeton High School, then for the Wildcats from 2000 to 2004 and is now the girls basketball coach and a teacher at Woodford County High School, said that someone had found the N-word written on his car after his team lost a game Friday night.

"In 2020 we still have cowards doing things like this," Daniels wrote in a Facebook post Saturday morning. "But the funny thing is that we laughed about it, because with me playing basketball all over the world this happened a lot.