LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- For a pretty good while, former University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari argued his program needed a new practice facility, something more modern, more eye-catching for recruits.

Then the landscape changed. Name, Image and Likeness came in, facilities, tradition and everything else took a back seat. Calipari left town, Memorial Coliseum, part of UK's practice facility in the Craft Center, got an $82 million facelift, and the talk seemed to die down.

On Tuesday, it fired back up. UK is exploring a men's basketball practice facility, somewhere on campus, to be developed in conjunction with a sports medicine venture by UK HealthCare. All of that is part of a larger "Sports Adjacent District" that would include shops and restaurants and various amenitie

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