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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-01-2015, 03:08 PM:

Cal may leave at some point but it isn't that time yet. The only coach to win more than one NCAA title is Rupp and would bet before he leaves Cal will want to join Rupp with multiple titles while coaching the Cats.

Less than an hour after Yahoo Sports reported mutual interest between John Calipari and the Sacramento Kings for a coaching and front-office job, the UK head coach responded.

“For the 100th time, I have the best basketball coaching position in the world,” Calipari said. “I am not looking for any other coaching position. Since he bought the team, (Kings owner) Vivek Ranadive and I have talked on and off about DeMarcus Cousins. Vivek has asked me what I thought about DeMarcus and I told him he would be an all-star, and I was right. In the last two weeks, we’ve also talked a bunch about the draft and on draft day, obviously because of Willie Cauley-Stein. At no time has Vivek offered me a job. I will be at Kentucky.”

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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 07-01-2015, 06:25 PM:

Per this article it sounds like Cal is listening to what the Kings are offering as 10 million dollars is a lot of money.

The Sacramento Kings are probing University of Kentucky coach John Calipari about his interest in taking over the franchise's front-office and coaching jobs, league sources told Yahoo Sports.

Calipari has been communicating with owner Vivek Ranadive and other members of the Kings' ownership group in recent weeks, league sources said. Calipari has listened to scenarios with which the Kings could offer him complete control of the franchise's fledgling basketball operations to go along with coaching, league sources said.

No formal offer has been made to Calipari, and Kings ownership understands that it will take a multiyear financial package of $10 million-plus annually to get Calipari to seriously consider leaving Kentucky, sources said.

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[ 07-01-2015, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: catmandoo ]