In an age of fake news, Kentucky Coach John Calipari will give his players and the Big Blue Nation the fake assist.
After UK defeated Mississippi State on Tuesday night, Calipari said he would be redefining the basketball assist. Basically, any pass will count as an assist. The idea will be to foster more passing.
“I’m trying to make them willing passers, OK?” Calipari said in his postgame news conference. “So let me tell you how you get an assist. You get a normal assist. You pass it to somebody and score.
“You ready for this assist?