I stood across from an 18-year-old Karl-Anthony Towns before the 2014 McDonald’s All-American Game, and asked him what made John Calipari different. Towns was the crown jewel of Calipari’s recruiting class at Kentucky that season as one of four Burger Boys headed to Lexington. This was almost an underwhelming blue chip haul by Calipari’s lofty standards at the time after he pulled in a record six McDonald’s All-Americans the year before, a group that led his team to the national championship game even as a lowly No. 8 seed.
Towns immediately knew what he wanted to say.
“He never lies to you,” Towns said of Calipari at the time. “He keeps
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