Don’t Sleep on Kentucky’s Braydon Hawthorne | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Tuesday, June 30 by Zac Oakes

by LARRY VAUGHT One Kentucky basketball player who is not being mentioned a lot when prospects for the 2026-27 season are discussed is redshirt freshman wing Braydon Hawthorne. However, Sporting News columnist Mike DeCourcy, who also does work for the Big Ten Network and... Read More.

Braydon and Zyon Hawthorne grew up Kentucky fans but were so competitive they often fought when playing basketball together

Thursday, May 28 by Zac Oakes

by LARRY VAUGHT Brothers Zyon and Braydon Hawthorne grew up in Beckley, W.Va., competing against each other regularly in backyard basketball battles. “They were super competitive. They were always competitive growing up from the basketball […]

Zyon Hawthorne and his brother, Braydon, grew up in West Virginia but both were always Kentucky fans | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Tuesday, May 5 by Zac Oakes

by LARRY VAUGHT Zyon Hawthorne, a 6-foot-2 combo guard, averaged 11.2 points, 7.0 assists and 3.0 rebounds per game during his senior season at Huntington Prep and was a 1,000-point scorer in high school. However, another number that jumps out about the recent Kentucky... Read More.

Braydon Hawthorne knows this UK team is talented | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Thursday, August 7 by Zac Oakes

by LARRY VAUGHT Freshman wing Braydon Hawthorne has been compared to former UK All-American Tayshaun Prince not only by UK coach Mark Pope but also by his former high school coach. Hawthorne has downplayed those comparisons but won’t shy away from how talented his... Read More.

Braydon Hawthorne lived in West Virginia but grew up a Kentucky fan

Thursday, June 5 by Zac Oakes

by LARRY VAUGHT Huntington Prep coach Arkell Bruce understood that “nobody was hot on the recruit trail” for wing Braydon Hawthorne when the 2024-25 high school basketball season started. The 6-8, 175-pound Hawthorne eventually committed […]

Braydon Hawthorne was Mark Pope’s biggest recruiting surprise | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Monday, May 26 by Zac Oakes

By LARRY VAUGHT Mark Pope pulled off one of his biggest recruiting surprises when he signed 6-foot-8 Braydon Hawthorne, a four-star wing prospect ranked in the top 40 in his recruiting class. The Kentucky coach already had what looked like a loaded roster when... Read More.

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Don’t Sleep on Kentucky’s Braydon Hawthorne | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Braydon and Zyon Hawthorne grew up Kentucky fans but were so competitive they often fought when playing basketball together

Zyon Hawthorne and his brother, Braydon, grew up in West Virginia but both were always Kentucky fans | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Braydon Hawthorne knows this UK team is talented | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

Braydon Hawthorne lived in West Virginia but grew up a Kentucky fan

Braydon Hawthorne was Mark Pope’s biggest recruiting surprise | Laker Country 104.9 FM WJRS

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