It’s no secret that when it comes to Kentucky basketball, there really are three seasons. There’s the regular season (duh). Recruiting season, which never really starts or ends; just kind of exists in its own universe. And then there’s draft season. Kentucky deals with the highs and lows of this particular part of the calendar more than any other school in the sport.
And this year specifically, the NBA Draft cycle is unlike any other Kentucky has never seen. This year Kentucky has a uniquely odd group of players. There are more individual players than usual who could (in theory) make the jump to the NBA, but fewer with guarantees on where they’ll land.