The college basketball and NBA seasons are still in the early portion, but Sam Vecenie at The Fieldhouse recently released his NBA Mock Draft with three Kentucky players in the first round.
Kevin Knox, Hamidou Diallo, and Jarred Vanderbilt were all projected as first-round picks, with Knox and Diallo going in the lottery. We’ve seen Diallo and Knox consistently in mock drafts, and most expect both of them to leave for the NBA next year.
They might not be top-five talents like Kentucky seems to have every year, but they’re both still in position to hear their names called in the lottery next year.