Who was the First black basketball player at University of Kentucky?

Answer 1

Tom Payne, Louisville, June 9, 1969.

Coach Adolph Rupp, along with his assistants, drove to Mr. Payne's residence, where Mr. Payne's mother served them coffee and biscuits while they signed the required paperwork to facilitate Mr. Payne's recruitment. Seven years prior, in 1962, the Mississippi National Guard was activated for the sole purpose of escorting Mr. James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, in Oxford, Mississippi, to class, amid protests and verbal assaults. During games at the University of Mississippi, Tom Payne, while playing for the University of Kentucky, was subjected to crowd shouts of racial slurs, bombardments of trash onto the floor, attempted denial of his use of the team locker room facilities at which point Coach Adolph Rupp threatened to stop the game and leave the facility.

The inflammatory lie that was previously posted here, which stated that the University of Kentucky has not recruited a black player and that black athletes are required to sign up to attend some lesser school is a crock of paranoid garbage posted by some racist from, I'm just guessing here, Louisville? I'm thinking that the previous poster was tired of the jokes about "Pitino, table for two?" and decided to check below the belt. Sorry. Pitino is a sleaze. You can't make it with a skank on a restaurant table while your assistant is watching and turn that into anything but trash - no matter how much you try to besmirch the dead.

Answer 2

Tom Payne.