Dereck Lively and Dariq Whitehead both came out of Thursday night’s NBA draft in interesting situations.
Lively was widely expected to go to Dallas at #10, but the Mavericks took Kentucky’s Cason Wallace instead. It might have been a bummer for young Lively but Kentucky fans should be happy. This is after all the day John Calipari declared was the biggest day of the year for Kentucky Basketball. Congrats on your big day, BBN!
Lively was selected two picks later, by Oklahoma City and then...traded to Dallas for Wallace. Dallas also got rid of an onerous contract, sending Davis Bertans and his $17 million dollar contract to OKC.