Former UK Basketball Player Tom Heitz Guarded 2 NBA Lottery Picks Every Day in Practice for 5 Years
Channel: PREP Athletics
Date: 30/12/2020

PREP Athletics is proud to have former UK Wildcat basketball player Tom Heitz on the podcast.  Tom played at UK from 1979-1984.  He backed up two lottery picks in Sam Bowie and Melvin Turpin.  Tom was on the UK 1984 Final Four team that lost to Patrick Ewing and Georgetown.  He was drafted in later rounds by the Indiana Pacers.  Tom also happens to be my uncle!  On this podcast he discusses being on the same recruiting trip to UK as Ralph Sampson, getting kneed in the groin while taking a charge on Charles Barkley on national tv, and being runner up to Mr Basketball in the state of Indiana.  


0:00                  Intro and Heitz family background
3:49                  Benefits of playing multiple sports
4:49                  The moment you knew you were good. 
5:55                  First college offer and college recruiting in the late 1970’s
8:30                  How Tom’s parents handled recruiting
10:00                Recruiting trip to UK with Ralph Sampson
11:20                Tom talks about what schools recruited him and what schools he visited
12:37                Indiana University recruiting visit and Coach Bobby Knight
14:48                Coach Bobby Huggins
17:27                5-Star Camp
19:49                First experience playing with UK teammates
21:24                Watermelon farm and Call with Dwayne Casey
23:58                Best part of UK Basketball
26:58                Mindset at UK
29:20                Succeeding at practice leading to running
31:03                Charles Barkley story
34:34                Kentucky vs Tennessee
35:18                Kentucky vs Georgetown in 1984 Final Four
36:48                Getting Drafted into the NBA
38:45                Indiana Pacers Rookie Camp
40:28                Cut from the Indiana Pacers
41:18                Melvin Turpin prep school story
43:40                Growth from boy to a man
45:21                Advice to himself (going to prep school would have benefited him)

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