Malone, Kevin Reinhardt return home to play Kentucky

December 23, 2008 - American Basketball Association (ABA)
Georgia Gwizzlies News Release


The American Basketball Association Georgia Gwizzlies will play the Kentucky Bisons Saturday at 7:00pm in Owensboro,Ketucky.Both Gwizzlies guard Kevin Reinhardt and GM/coach Embry Malone are natives of Kentucky. Malone attended Louisville Dupont Manual High school 1969-1972 were he lettered in three sports. Reinhardt is a former Kentucky high school Mr. Basketball candidate and played college basketball at Georgetown College."Frankly this will be an emotional game for me returning home to coach a pro basketball game says Malone."Things that this generation read about,Adolph Rupp,Muhammad Ali,Secretariat,Martin Luther King coming to town to march I seen up close and personal states" Malone.

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