Anthony Davis liked his poster
February 8, 2012
When Anthony Davis took the court, 24,000 posters depicting him and his oustretched arms encircled him in the Rupp Arena seats.
“Indescribable, really,” Davis said. “I was laughing. I think ESPN was holding a camera on Marquis (Teague) and Doron (Lamb) sitting down, and Marquis was holding the poster and the camera was on it.”
The poster was modeled after a famous Michael Jordan version — “the greatest basketball player who’s ever played,” said Davis, a Chicago native — and touted the freshman as a national defensive player of the year candidate.
But Davis said he wasn’t looking as sharp as he wanted.
“They threw it on me. I was going to get a hair cut, and they said, come to the gym, you got a photo shoot,” Davis said. “I was like, ‘what?'”
Still, Davis (and pretty much every UK fan) liked the finished product. Rupp Arena workers started laying the posters on seats at 8 a.m., according to the Courier-Journal’s Kyle Tucker, and it seemed well worth it.
Even if he hadn’t gotten one for himself by the time he came out for post-game interviews after the game.
“Zero,” Davis said of how many he had scored. “But I guarantee they have some for me.”
UPDATE: I’ve received a ton of inquiries about whether they’re available for purchase. I talked to UK Athletics Tuesday afternoon, and they said they are not.
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