John Wall revolutionized Kentucky Men’s Basketball, bringing it back from the doldrums of the Billy Clyde days and catapulting the program back to national prominence to kick off the John Calipari era. In the NBA, he quickly turned into one of the best point guards in the league, making five straight All-Star appearances and earning a four-year, $171 million super-max contract with the Washington Wizards.
Now, that contract looks like a long-term premium package deal with a cable company that has poor customer service and whose Internet rarely works, and it currently sits on the books of the Houston Rockets, a franchise itching to cut the cord.