{"id":385440,"date":"2024-04-16T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T18:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=385440"},"modified":"2024-04-16T19:02:21","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T19:02:21","slug":"kentucky-basketball-loses-another-one-4-star-billy-richmond-set-to-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=385440","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky basketball loses another one: 4-star Billy Richmond set to leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another commitment in the class of 2024 is leaving Kentucky with Billy Richmond the latest blue-chip prospect set to leave the program.<\/p>\n<p>In recent days, five-star forward Jayden Quaintance and four-star guard Boogie Fland have asked to be released from their National Letter of Intent (NLI). Both prospects were huge parts of Kentucky&#8217;s recruiting class.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky class is falling apart in the wake of head coach John Calipari&#8217;s departure to Arkansas. It is unclear if the trip of Fland, Quainatance and now Richmond will be joining Calipari at <a href=\"https:\/\/razorbackswire.usatoday.com\/\">Arkansas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond is a 6-foot-6 forward from Camden High School (Camden, New Jersey). He is a consensus <a href=\"https:\/\/247sports.com\/Player\/Billy-Richmond-46129808\/\">four-star recruit in the class of 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News of Richmond departing Kentucky was first broken by On3&#8217;s Joe Tipton. Richmond has not (yet) made any posts on social media about the decision to re-open his recruitment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: 2024 Top-20 recruit Billy Richmond has decommitted from Kentucky, he tells <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/On3Recruits?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@On3Recruits<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/28MeY8yZL3\">https:\/\/t.co\/28MeY8yZL3<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hemh0R0gpL\">pic.twitter.com\/hemh0R0gpL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TiptonEdits\/status\/1780291517107626244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Richmond is the No. 39 recruit in the nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/basketball\/recruiting\/player\/_\/id\/250718\/billy-richmond\">according to ESPN<\/a>, where he is also ranked as the No. 11 small forward in the recruiting class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Yet another commitment in the class of 2024 is leaving Kentucky with Billy Richmond the latest blue-chip prospect set to leave the program. (&#8230;)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385440"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385442,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385440\/revisions\/385442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}