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Some top-notch recruits shied away from the bright lights of Kentucky basketball. The pressure of playing under the microscope is too much for some shoulders to bear. If Jasper Johnson ultimately decides to play for his Old Kentucky Home, living up to the successes of his family predecessors is damn near impossible. Long before the shooting guard was a five-star sensation, his father and uncle were high school football phenoms at Harrodsburg High School, coached by their father, Alvis Johnson. The family patriarch was an assistant athletics director at UK later in his career, but the KHSAA Hal…

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