Perhaps no one in basketball can provide better insight on New Orleans’ new big-man duo of Anthony Davis and DeMarcus Cousins than John Calipari, who successfully recruited and coached both for one season apiece at the University of Kentucky. That’s why it made sense this morning – during multi-hour coverage of the blockbuster New Orleans-Sacramento trade – for ESPN to bring on Calipari as a SportsCenter call-in guest.
“Coach Cal,” who won a national championship in 2012 with Davis and reached the Elite Eight with Cousins two years earlier, said both men are family-first off the court, something Calipari witnessed specifically Sunday prior to the NBA All-Star Game.