Nick Richards will be returning to Kentucky next season for his third year in Lexington. He made the announcement on Tuesday.
A post shared by Nick Richards (@nickrichards_) on May 28, 2019 at 11:19am PDT
This might be no news at all to some people, or at least unsurprising, but there was a very real possibility Richards could have stayed in the draft, or even transferred. The 21-year-old big man opted to test the NBA Draft waters, and at his age, he may have thought it was time to move on to professional basketball and start making a living for himself, something that we’ve seen more players do in recent years after two-year stays in Lexington.