UCweCONN
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So I'm off from work this afternoon and watching Fast N' Loud, the car restorer show on the Discovery Channel. The show starts with the hosts driving to Litchfield to speak to a guy who claims to have the 1st and 2nd Firebirds ever produced. Well he has them and they need a huge amount of work to restore. The hosts think they'll be worth $1 million after restoration. The guy wants $100K for the pair but the hosts gets them for $70K which they claim is the steal of the century. When they first got there, the guy's tall and they ask him if he played basketball, and he says "Yeah, I played for the Golden State Warriors, Kentucky Wildcats, and also professionally overseas." He's wearing a Kentucky Wildcats baseball hat. I don't know what exactly motivated me to wiki him but mainly that he lives in CT and played pro ball and I wanted to see who he was. His name is Chuck Aleksinas.
It turns out everything he said was accurate, except he failed to mentione that while he started his college career at Kentucky.....he finished at UCONN (1980-1982). Why would a guy born and raised and living in CT, a UCONN grad, neglect to mention playing at UCONN and instead give the team he started at, Kentucky, all this love? If Kentucky was so great, why did he leave? I guess Alex Oriakhi will do the same when people ask him about his career......
This guy was slightly before my time (well, not really, but I don't really remember him, although the name does sound familiar), but do any of you remember him? He sure loves him some Kentucky.
It turns out everything he said was accurate, except he failed to mentione that while he started his college career at Kentucky.....he finished at UCONN (1980-1982). Why would a guy born and raised and living in CT, a UCONN grad, neglect to mention playing at UCONN and instead give the team he started at, Kentucky, all this love? If Kentucky was so great, why did he leave? I guess Alex Oriakhi will do the same when people ask him about his career......
This guy was slightly before my time (well, not really, but I don't really remember him, although the name does sound familiar), but do any of you remember him? He sure loves him some Kentucky.