Kentucky players and the NBA Draft bring one image immediately to mind: the green room, shaking hands with the commissioner and basketball’s version of living happily ever after.
But as Wenyen Gabriel said Thursday, there are different paths to the top of the basketball mountain.
“There are different ways to make it in the league,” Gabriel said. “You saw with ‘Zay (Isaiah Briscoe). He went overseas for a year. Now, he came into the league. . . . It’s a long journey. You just have to be consistent and keep trying to improve and continue to be a good person.