LEXINGTON — The Shaedon Sharpe watch just got a little more interesting.
Calls for the Kentucky basketball freshman guard to play this season after graduating high school early to enroll for the spring semester are only likely to grow after news broke Thursday that he is in fact eligible for the 2022 NBA draft. Like Hamidou Diallo did for Kentucky after enrolling for the spring 2017 semester, Sharpe could declare for the draft without playing in a game for UK.
ESPN draft analyst Jonathan Givony, who originally reported last fall that Sharpe would not be eligible for this year's draft because he graduated after the 2021-22 NBA season had started, reported an unnamed source had confirmed Sharpe could apply for early entry status to the draft in June.