Just when it looked like John Calipari’s news conference was winding down Friday and I turned the camera off, Calipari had some great stuff to say.Instead of the traditional preview story for Saturday’s game, I thought I’d highlight the big news from Friday’s presser, which included comments on a possible NBA team in Louisville and Cal’s change in coaching philosophy. Cal’s comments speak for themselves. Here they are below:– In regards to Saturday’s Joe B. Hall celebration in which 40 former players will be in attendance at Saturday’s game to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his retirement, Calipari spoke about the friendship he and Hall have formed:”Coach Hall, he’s been a special friend,” Calipari said. “He’s been like a mentor. He was at practice yesterday. He comes to practice two, three days a week, starts diagramming stuff for me. A great day for me was last year when we introduced him at the Blue-White Scrimmage and I sat him on the bench. The response from our fans was like wow. Sometimes when you coach and when you’ve been away, I don’t know if he realized how people feel about him here. They truly love him. “For 40 players to come back, for us to be a part of that and be around, and for me to be around him and him to  be able to help us today – here’s a guy that coached in the 70s, won a national title and has nothing but good things for me. There’s no jealousy. There’s no, ‘Well, Cal had this. I had never had this and I had to do without this and my office was …’ All he is, is happy Kentucky is doing well. He wants to be a part of it and he wants to come to practice. He’s become a dear friend because of that.”– Who would have ever thought that it would be Josh Harrellson to change Calipari’s coaching philosophy?Based on the approach he’s taken with Harrellson over the past few weeks, Calipari said it’s opened his eyes to other coaching styles. A coach that says he doesn’t like to “beat up” on his players mentally and physically, he’s now realizing that some players respond better to that approach.”Some players, that’s what they need,” Calipari said. “Josh needed that. Did Brandon (Knight) need that? No. I’ve had other great players that didn’t need that, but Josh did, and it shows me there are all kinds of ways of doing what we do.”Following some misguided Twitter comments by Harrellson that were directed at his head coach in the preseason, Harrellon received some disciplinary action.One of the actions taken by Calipari was to have his senior big man run before every practice. The conditioning drills, which are still taking place today, have paid off. Harrellson is averaging 5.4 points and 9.0 rebounds this year, including a double-double his last time out.”If Josh didn’t Twitter, I probably wouldn’t have done it this way with Josh, and you know what, it probably would have been a mistake and he wouldn’t as be as good as he is right now,” Calipari said.The second-year UK coach said he’s never been comfortable jumping on players, but he kidded with reporters that he may have won a couple of national championships had he taken that approach sooner.”I found out there are certain guys that you separate from the pack and you deal with them differently,” Calipari said. “Why can’t I coach both ways? If I need to be this to one, I’ll be that to him. … Yeah, we’re trying to win every ballgame, but you’re trying to develop these young people, build their self esteem and confidence.”Now, Calipari is taking the approach with a few other players.”We’ve got a couple of other guys that need to build their own self esteem and break barriers,” Calipari said. “It can’t be me saying it or you saying it or why not, so let’s just put them through the gauntlet. You’re either making it or you’re not making it. Figure it out.”– In news that will surely make waves in Louisville, Calipari fully endorsed Louisville trying to land an NBA team. Asked Friday what he thought about the possibility of an NBA franchise landing in Louisville, Calipari said he saw no downside. Louisville leaders, now equipped with the brand new KFC Yum! Center, are pushing hard for an NBA team.”For the city of Louisville, I think it’s a wonderful idea,” Calipari said. “It’s great for our state, it’s great for Humana, it’s great for Papa John’s – it’s great for anyone there.”Calipari faced a similar situation when he was the head coach at Memphis. Initially hesitant about the idea of an NBA team competing with his college team for fanfare, Calipari decided that whatever was good for the city of Memphis was good for the university. Eventually the city landed the Memphis Grizzlies, and according to Calipari, Memphis sold more tickets and raised more dollars than it had before the Grizzlies. “I don’t think there is any downside,” Calipari said. “People just get scared, like they’re afraid of it.”Calipari said the benefits of an NBA franchise would include the Louisville basketball program.”The recruiting for Louisville would go up because there would be pro scouts in their gym every day,” Calipari said. “That’s what happened to us at Memphis. Every day, because they’re going in to see the pro team that night, where do they go that afternoon? They’ll go to the college gym to see the college players.”But wouldn’t a rival’s gain hurt Kentucky?Calipari said it could bump UK off the front page in Louisville – a suggestion reporters quickly shot down – but he didn’t buy into the notion that it would take fans away from Kentucky.”This state is driven by the city of Louisville,” Calipari said. “It is. Anything that’s good for the city of Louisville is good for our state. I believe (the NBA) is good for the city of Louisville, which makes our state even better. That’s just my opinion. That’s one of four million. It will never take away from the University of Kentucky – ever. “It will never take dollars away, it will never take seats away. And hey, twice a year when you’re playing LeBron (James), come here and play in the new building we’ll have in four years.”

– And finally, Calipari said he expects to hear something from the NCAA on Enes Kanter “soon.” What soon means, we do not know as Calipari did not elaborate any further.