Breakfast Club is back at Kentucky Basketball's practice facility

Kentucky Basketball‘s roster still may be short a piece or two, plus Aaron Bradshaw‘s injury, but the available Wildcats on campus have already picked up one of the program’s traditions: the breakfast club.

Yesterday, Jordan Burks, one of the new freshmen on campus, shared to his Instagram story a behind-the-scenes look at the Joe Craft Center training facility at 7:25 a.m. with the caption, “Breakfast club.”

Whether intentional or not, the club is a callback to 2011 when another freshman forward, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, led Kentucky Basketball’s first breakfast club through early morning workouts. Kidd-Gilchrist and four to five of his teammates, including Anthony Davis, would get up at sunrise to put in the work before the work.

At the time, John Calipari said the voluntary morning workouts were as much about his young team being together as it was about the basketball, noting Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls had a breakfast club in the late 1980s to build a championship dynasty.

Kentucky’s 2011-12 breakfast club ended with a national championship. You remember.

We won’t set those expectations, but it’s good to see that the new class doesn’t skip breakfast.

Kentucky Basketball in July

Burks and his teammates could be putting in the additional work because they are less than three weeks from playing their first games together. Coming up on July 12, Kentucky begins its appearance at GloblJam 2023 where the ‘Cats will represent America against Canada, Germany, and Africa at the Under-23 international basketball showcase.

Here’s the team’s schedule for the four-team summer event:

Date	Game	Time
Wed, July 12	Kentucky vs. Germany	1:30 p.m.
Thurs, July 13	Kentucky vs. Canada	8:00 p.m.
Saturday, July 15	Kentucky vs. Team Africa	1:30 p.m.
Sunday, July 16	Kentucky vs. TBA	TBA

Our competition up north at the GLOBL JAM ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/Ht0mm291yH

— Kentucky Men’s Basketball (@KentuckyMBB) April 24, 2023

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