Former Indiana basketball player Rick Calloway said...
Former Indiana basketball player Rick Calloway said that a newspaper misquoted him in reporting that Kentucky signee Shawn Kemp had asked about receiving a handout during a recruiting visit to Indiana University.
“If you talk to Shawn, apologize for me,” Calloway, who will transfer to Kansas at the completion of the semester, told the Elkhart (Ind.) Truth.
“Some (comments) were taken out of context,” Calloway said in the interview conducted Monday night. “I read the newspaper. A couple times, (the reporter) did misquote me.”
An article published Monday in the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky., quoted Calloway as saying that Kemp’s main question during his visit to Indiana was: “Do you get things? Do they kick you all out (give you kickbacks)?’ ”
Kemp told the Truth that what Calloway was originally quoted as saying was a big shock.
“I couldn’t believe it. I don’t know who started it. I don’t know who starts these things,” Kemp said.
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