Brett Dawson has a great story on John Wall quickly becoming a basketball icon in Wednesday’s Courier-Journal.
The story profiles Wall’s quick rise to stardom in the Bluegrass State. It only took the freshman seven games to become a legend.
Need proof? Well, the North Carolina native reportedly already has a shot named after him at a local bar. Yeah, I kid you not. Here’s an excerpt from Dawson’s story:
Behind the bar at Two Keys Tavern, one of this town’s best-known watering holes, there’s a 3-liter tower for dispensing drinks.
On nights when the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team plays on TV, it’s filled with a mixture of blue raspberry vodka, sour mix and Sprite.
A shot of that concoction has become known as a “John Wall.”
“The customers just started calling it that,” bartender Seth Bennett said. “We never really had a name for it.”
They still don’t. There’s no sign advertising a “John Wall” anywhere in Two Keys. That fans still order rounds of them every time the Wildcats’ freshman point guard scores a basket is a sign of just how adored he’s become in his short stay at UK.
