In assessing a relatively modest outlook for Kentucky players in this year’s NBA Draft, John Calipari offered what sounded like a chicken-or-egg explanation.
Calipari linked no UK player projected in the front end of the lottery to last season’s pedestrian 26-11 record. More victories translates into an elevated draft stock, he said. Although it could also be argued that players with an elevated draft stock would have led Kentucky to more victories.
“We lost four in a row,” Calipari said Monday of UK’s losing streak in early February. “That hurts your draft position. ... If we won 38 straight games (as UK did in the 2014-15 season), what?