According to Adam Zagoria, Shai will announce his NBA Draft decision tonight live on ESPN’s SportsCenter at 6:45 pm EST. It is almost a certainty that he will announce his decision to declare for the draft and sign with an agent, thus making him one of the most surprising one and dones under John Calipari.
Going into his freshman season, very few people had Shai on their NBA radar, especially as a 2018 draft pick, and it seemed unlikely that he would be one-and-done.
However, as this team went through its struggles and slowly grew into a Sweet 16-caliber club, Shai emerged as not only the team’s best, most consistent player, but also the team’s glue guy.