Lamont Butler, Kentucky basketball's starting point guard, departed in the middle of the first half Thursday during UK's opening game in Nashville.

Mark Pope's Kentucky basketball team dispatched Oklahoma without Lamont Butler. If Pope wants Cats to thrive in NCAA tourney, he needs to rest guard.

Kentucky standout point guard Lamont Butler exited the Wildcats' Southeastern Conference tournament second-round game against Oklahoma on Thursday after he aggravated his left shoulder injury. Butler was hurt just past the midway point of the first half and missed the rest of the game.

Lamont Butler, who has missed six games over the past two months with a left shoulder injury, left Kentucky’s SEC Tournament opener with the same ailment.

Lamont Butler went back to the locker room with an injury during the first half of Kentucky‘s SEC Tournament matchup against Oklahoma. Head coach Mark Pope said that his point guard is receiving “imaging” to determine the extent of his injury.

Mark Pope was unable to give a clear answer on Lamont Butler's injury status, but it seems like teammate Kerr Kriisa gave a terrible reaction when Butler told him the injury.