Louisville wasn’t the first, but Pat Kelsey and the Cardinals made the loudest move yet in the recent trend of schools adding former G League players to their respective programs to play college basketball. London Johnson, a former four-star recruit who once had a final six list of Alabama, Clemson, Virginia, North Carolina, USC and Georgia before signing a two-year deal with the G-League Ignite out of high school, will be suiting up in the red and black at the KFC Yum! Center.
This comes after he spent two seasons with Ignite, coached by none other than Kentucky assistant Jason Hart, followed by a third season suiting up for the Cleveland Charge and Maine Celtics in the G League.