Nearly two months after Kentucky basketball’s 2020-21 season came to a close, graduate transfer guard Davion Mintz made a rather surprising decision, announcing that he would be testing the NBA Draft waters and leaving the door open for a potential return to Lexington on May 3. It wasn’t that the decision itself was surprising exactly, but rather that most just assumed that’s what he had been doing since the season ended, as UK head coach John Calipari indicated as early as March 16.
The process wasn’t coming to an end anytime soon; it was actually just beginning.