Lamont Butler got a relatively late start to organized basketball, but the Kentucky star has always had something special. One man helped put him on the path to success.

Amari Williams was snubbed from being on the All-SEC Third Team, but the biggest snub of all was Kentucky point guard Lamont Butler not being on the SEC All-Defensive Team. Butler did miss some ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The story of how Lamont Butler became one of the best defenders in college basketball starts inside the Moreno Valley Mall. Butler, who was 10 at the time, was pretending to ...

Months prior to his debut on the Rupp Arena court, Lamont Butler was already letting everyone around Kentucky’s program know exactly what to expect with his arrival. He was a menace. A nuisance.