O'Neal shared that Kentucky was his top choice coming …

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Speaking on the Str8 to Da League podcast, Jermaine O'Neal shared that Kentucky was his top choice coming out of high school and that Pitino had heavily recruited him, making multiple in-home visits with O'Neal and his family. "I was going to go to Kentucky. Shout out to Rick Pitino, man. Like he recruited me, and this was like the realest thing, man. My mother loved him, man. She loved him," O'Neal said. According to O'Neal, Pitino's honesty ultimately convinced him to skip college and enter the NBA Draft.

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