{"id":114052,"date":"2025-06-21T08:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/114052\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T08:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T08:58:08","slug":"denzel-aberdeen-wants-the-bbn-to-know-hes-never-going-to-lack-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/114052\/","title":{"rendered":"Denzel Aberdeen wants the BBN to know he’s never going to lack energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kentucky senior guard Denzel Aberdeen<\/a> will bring plenty to the table this coming season.<\/p>\n

The Florida transfer, who helped the Gators win a national title just a couple of months ago, has been heralded nationally as a high-level perimeter defender. Early into offseason workouts and practices, his new Kentucky teammates have praised his outside shooting and ball handling<\/a>. A recent workout picture<\/a> showed him jumping into the air with an outstanding vertical leap, his hand nearly touching the top of the backboard. <\/p>\n

But all of that is possible because of his mindset as someone who doesn\u2019t take plays off. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m a big energy-booster,\u201d Aberdeen said this week on BBN Tonight<\/a>. \u201cWhether we\u2019re up or down, I\u2019m always in there to make sure we keep the lead or make sure we come back and take the lead. And as far as defensively, I\u2019m always trying to guard the best guys, always trying to stop the other opponent from scoring as much as I can.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think, just my energy is a big part of my game that I want people to know about me. I\u2019m gonna bring a lot of it this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aberdeen should have plenty of energy to spend this season, too. Surrounded by talented guards, depth in the backcourt should rarely be an issue for Mark Pope<\/a>\u2018s second Kentucky team. The 20-minute-per-game range is a good guess as to what he\u2019ll average in 2025-26, whether that\u2019s as a starter or one of the first guys off the bench. Pope has emphasised conditioning so far over the last couple of weeks, which Aberdeen said is \u201cvery tiring,\u201d but has helped everyone push each other just a bit more. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s still very early in the offseason, but Aberdeen is clearly enjoying his Kentucky experience so far. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been pretty amazing,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019ve only been here two weeks, but I feel like I\u2019ve been here a whole year. Just gelling with the guys and playing with them, whether its off the court on the court, playing video games or competing in practice, stuff like that, it\u2019s been pretty good. And Lexington is pretty nice so far.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check out the entire interview with Aberdeen and BBN Tonight below. Aberdeen also talked about not dunking until he was a senior in high school (which makes his vertical even more impressive), Otega Oweh<\/a> talking trash about Kentucky beating Florida last season, why becoming a Wildcat was a \u201cno-brainer\u201d, and much more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kentucky senior guard Denzel Aberdeen will bring plenty to the table this coming season. The Florida transfer, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,14352],"class_list":{"0":"post-114052","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-denzel-aberdeen-22-dr-phillips"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114720532402129787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}