Leah Macy, class of 2025, 5-star recruit — granddaughter of Kyle, point guard on the 1978 NCAA championship team from Kentucky — committed to Notre Dame.
There’s time for her to change her mind. Surely some Kentucky booster would commit every NCAA recruiting violation in the book to bring her to Lexington.
If Leah Macy signed with Kentucky, and played as a sophomore with senior Dominika Paurova (the Oregon State transfer who saved her best for the NCAA tournament), there’s an SEC team I could care about.
Kyle Macy is so well-regarded in Kentucky that the Morris family named their daughter Maci, who couldn’t sign anywhere but UK (later drafted by WNBA Washington). He was the first-round of NBA Phoenix in 1980, playing in all 91 games for the Pacific Division winners (who were shockingly dumped from the first round of the Western playoffs by a Kansas City team that didn’t finish at .500).
Then things started to fall apart for Phoenix whose regular season win totals dropped from 57 to 46 to 53 to 41 to 36 (after the Suns thought it a good idea to trade Dennis Johnson for Rick Robey, who “clanked when he walked”, said Larry Bird).
Kyle left as a free agent for Chicago, where Michael Jordan couldn’t tolerate him, resulting in Kyle’s worst NBA season.