{"id":33554,"date":"2025-07-24T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33554\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T11:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T11:03:07","slug":"mark-pope-is-really-proud-of-what-kam-williams-has-brought-to-kentucky-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/33554\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Pope is \u2018really proud\u2019 of what Kam Williams has brought to Kentucky Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"KAzGpI\">Although everyone is gearing up for football season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aseaofblue.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kentucky Wildcats<\/a> fans will be even more excited for basketball season as year two of the Mark Pope era is a few months away.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JMpUhg\">Pope and his staff have worked incredibly hard to assemble an entirely new roster for the new season, and it looks promising.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8S2ufq\">Pope recently met with local media and answered a bunch of questions, but had some eye-popping comments about Tulane transfer Kam Williams.<\/p>\n<p id=\"8IEwqH\">Williams is a high-potential \u2018three and D\u2019 player and has impressed Pope from a coaching perspective.<\/p>\n<p id=\"po2i6O\">\u201cI\u2019m really proud of Kam, especially to be a new guy in the program and come here, and it\u2019s unbelievable when you get to coach a guy where you tell him, &#8216;We need you to do this every single time,&#8217; and he does it every single time,\u201d Pope stated. <\/p>\n<p id=\"bxHQxu\">\u201cThat gives us a chance to be differentiated from every other team in college basketball, and he\u2019s embraced that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"krI6up\">The 6-foot-8 guard averaged 9.3 points, 4.5 rebounds, and 1.3 assists per game last season for Tulane. <\/p>\n<p id=\"wA9cgY\">Williams also shot 41.2% from beyond the arc, and that will help him fit right into the Pope offense in Lexington.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although everyone is gearing up for football season, Kentucky Wildcats fans will be even more excited for basketball&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[571,402,574,27931,577,424,10714,2850,27930,569,575,14477,398,400,401,573,19383,27929,27928,572,99,826,3447,5352],"class_list":["post-33554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-a","tag-basketball","tag-blue","tag-brought","tag-exclude-from-stn-video","tag-front-page","tag-has","tag-is","tag-kam","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball","tag-mark","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaabasketball","tag-of","tag-pope","tag-proud","tag-really","tag-sea","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-what","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}