John Calipari is in Egypt coaching the USA U-19 basketball team, but he still can't escape what has become an annual tradition of his reported interest of jumping from college to the NBA.

He denied any interest on Twitter after a report indicated that someone in his camp reached out about the vacant Knicks presidency. And on Friday, he joined Jim Rome's show to once again attempt to put the rumors to rest.

"Well, my phone blew up at 4:45 a.m. here, and I started looking like what in the world, and I just shook my head," Calipari said. "I called my wife and said, 'Honey there's nothing to this unless you called Jim Dolan,' and she said she didn't. So I called my son and said nothing to it, son. I had to leave a message unless you called Jim Dolan. Because the bottom line is talking to anybody at the Knicks doesn't matter, it's Jim Dolan.

"And you know what, I'm at Kentucky. I'm not going to reach out to anybody and you know what, on top of it, I have the best job. So I'm looking at this just laughing. But it's every year, Jim. You know that. There's I did this, or somebody contacted me or and it is what it is. I mean, I guess it's good for headlines, but the reality of it is I'm over in Egypt. What am I? I'm on a different time frame right now."

It's good headlines, yes. And it's a headline that seemingly surfaces every year before he squashes them. Here's a brief history of him doing exactly that.

Calipari is happy at Kentucky, he says. His only stint in the NBA in the late 1990s was wildly unsuccessful and he was eventually fired in 1999 from the Nets. So would he make a return to the big league to prove to himself he could do it?

"I look at this right now, and all the things that have happened to me for me to feel that I have to do one more thing or I have to win more games than this other guy, I'm not in that mode," Calipari said. "My mode right now is how many kids can I help, how many assistant coaches can I help become head coaches before I retire. Is there any chance that I can get 12 kids in that All-Star game, 12 players that I coached in the NBA All-Star game, if I could do that, then I'm going to feel fulfilled."

Since taking over in Kentucky, Calipari has a 249-53 record, has won an NCAA championship and has taken the Wildcats to four Final Four appearances, six Sweet Sixteen appearances, and has only missed the NCAA Tournament once in his tenure in Lexington.