Career
After Kentucky, the 6"10" forward he transferred in his sophomore year to Southern Illinois University. Upon graduation in 1995, Timberlake played professionally overseas for five years, in National Basketball leagues in Australia, New Zealand, China and in his final season 1998-1995 in the South of Korea Basketball League in the LG Sakers before retiring from professional basketball. Timberlake is famous for being stomped on by Duke star player Christian Laettner, in one of the most memorable National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball games of all-time, between the Kentucky Wildcats and the Duke Blue Devils in the 1992 Elite Eight.
Officiants declined to eject Laettner, instead only charging him with a technical foul, a decision especially controversial because Laettner went on to score the game"s winning points with an overtime buzzer-beating shot in which Grant Hill threw a 75-foot inbounds pass to Laettner, who converted it from the free throw line.
After many years of the stomping incident being an accident or an intentional foul, Laettner finally admitted during the airing of 30 Foreign 30"s documentary titled I Hate Christian Laettner broadcast in March 2015 on Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, that it was intentional. During the program, Laettner gave his reason for doing it, citing physical play by Timberlake particularly the latter"s earlier fouls on him during the game.
The former Duke center star also apologized to Timberlake over the incident.
