Willie Cauley-Stein Legally Changes His Middle Name To "Trill"

Kentucky – Former University of Kentucky basketball star Willie Cauley-Stein’s hyphenated last name is official now, as is a change in his middle name.

Cauley-Stein, 21, was born Willie Durmond Cauley Jr. He filed a name-change order Friday with the Probate Division of the Fayette District Court to legally change his name to Willie Trill Cauley-Stein.

“I want to include my mother’s last name,” was Cauley-Stein’s reason for the change, according to the court document.

Cauley-Stein’s mother, Marlene Stein, said her son decided to change his middle name since he was already there to change his last name.

Trill is the “nickname his ‘boys’ call him,” Marlene Stein said.

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Listen I don’t want to rain on Willie Trill Cauley-Stein’s parade or anything here, not while all his boys and the internet are telling him how cool he is for this and he gears up for the NBA draft, but just wanted to throw out a little bit of a cautionary tale here. Remember the last time somebody changed their name to Trill?

Literally the last time we ever heard from Kenny Hill. Went from 511 yards and 3 TD in a game to Sumlin sticking him so far on the end of the bench barely anybody noticed when he requested his transfer to TCU. Just a heads up Willie, it’s a small sample size, but Trill name changes are 0 for 1 in the sports world right now, real bad odds.

But I guess when you can do stuff like this on the court..

..You can make your middle name anything you want.