{"id":169393,"date":"2025-08-23T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169393\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T14:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T14:57:10","slug":"john-wall-says-he-plans-to-work-out-at-kentucky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/169393\/","title":{"rendered":"John Wall says he plans to work out at Kentucky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Former No. 1 overall pick<strong> John Wall <\/strong>teased a return to his alma mater, the University of Kentucky, this offseason. Wall announced his retirement from the NBA this week and was later introduced as one of the analysts for NBA on Prime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">After an 11-year career, whose last team was the Los Angeles Clippers, Wall couldn\u2019t make a return to the league and decided to look for new challenges. Added to his work with Amazon, the former Washington Wizards star is planning to return to Kentucky to <strong>help Mark Pope<\/strong> prepare the new generation of players.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Wall played one season with the Wildcats, averaging 16.6 points, 4.3 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game, shooting 46.1% from the field, 32.5% from deep and 75.4% from the free-throw line. He\u2019s now set to help Pope and<strong> teased a potential return to Lexington as soon as this fall.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Wall plans to return to Kentucky<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">While John Calipari isn\u2019t in front of the team anymore, Wall<strong> still has a strong relationship with the school.<\/strong> He said they allowed him to fulfill his dreams and now wants to give back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/BUS_20250823_BUS_477624_john_walljpg_242310155-3-1024x631_6574836c.webp&#038;width=1024&#038;height=631.webp\" width=\"1024\" height=\"631\" alt=\"John Wall\" class=\"h-auto\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-center mt-5 text-[14px] leading-[20px] font-normal\">John Wall<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">\u201c<strong>Kentucky\u2019s always home for me. There\u2019s always love. That\u2019s the school I went to, the jersey I put on,\u201d<\/strong> said Wall. \u201cThey gave me the opportunity to reach one of my goals and dreams in life to play college basketball, and play on one of the biggest levels for one of the best schools in the country, and a good opportunity to go to the league. So yeah, I\u2019m definitely coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">Additionally, Wall said Pope extended him<strong> an invitation to work out with the new guys.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"mb-[20px] md:mb-[30px] break-word\">\u201cMark Pope wrote me this year to ask if I\u2019d come down for the summer if I get the opportunity to play <strong>some pick-up or just work out with some of the guys, and I\u2019m gonna try to find time,\u201d <\/strong>Wall told Jones.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"break-word\">John Wall was one of the greatest players in program history, and it\u2019s refreshing to see him go back to his home and<strong> give back to the Wildcats after all these years.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former No. 1 overall pick John Wall teased a return to his alma mater, the University of Kentucky,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":169394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[1339,93218,357,1317,1337,1338,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-169393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-john-wall","10":"tag-kentucky","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaabasketball","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115078669495091027","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}