{"id":732310,"date":"2026-05-12T10:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:27:14","slug":"keegan-brown-opens-up-about-his-kentucky-basketball-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/732310\/","title":{"rendered":"Keegan Brown opens up about his Kentucky Basketball role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/ukathletics.com\/sports\/mbball\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kentucky Basketball<\/a> staff is trying to navigate the NIL era in the best way possible, having assembled a team of four minds to build the best roster possible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Mark Pope hired Keegan Brown, who\u2019s a data analysis and roster construction expert, and the SoCal native took to social media to elaborate on his newly assigned role in Lexington:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cIt\u2019s been a whirlwind in the month and a half I\u2019ve been here, but super grateful to be working with Coach Pope and this team of incredible people,\u201d Brown recently wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cTo give more insight into my role, the analytics is just the foundation for me. Every day, I\u2019m talking to agents, building models with Nick (Robinson), managing contracts start to finish, grinding film, and building the systems that power our front office. Blessed to be doing it at Kentucky.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Brown was hired in late March, having spent a good chunk of time with Pope at BYU, and recently finished a role in the NBA G-League as a video coordinator for the Wisconsin Herd, the Milwaukee Bucks\u2019 affiliate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">There was a lot of speculation about whether Brown would be assigned the GM role, but the Brigham Young graduate will be doing much of the behind-the-scenes work as the Wildcats look for a big third season under Pope at the helm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kentucky Basketball staff is trying to navigate the NIL era in the best way possible, having assembled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3724],"tags":[7,38124,244],"class_list":["post-732310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball-news","tag-kentucky-wildcats-basketball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116561133115208301","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732310","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=732310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}