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Not all UK basketball players need to leave early for NBA | Lexington Herald Leader

Unexpected — or, at the very least, difficult-to-comprehend — postseason departures from the UK basketball team have become a regular occurrence.

The Wildcats have had plenty of no-brainer early entrants into the NBA Draft under John Calipari, and they’ll likely have many more in the near future.

But a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts has been at work over the past few seasons, a notion that, “If I’m good enough to earn a scholarship offer from Kentucky, well, I’m good enough to go pro just about anytime I choose.”

That’s, obviously, not the case.

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