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Can Dennis Gates turn Mizzou into an NBA pipeline?

The NBA Draft went down on Thursday night and 58 picks were made, 7 of them came from SEC teams. Unsurprisingly, Missouri wasn’t one of those teams. Kentucky had two players drafted, Auburn had two, Tennessee, Alabama, and LSU each had one player drafted.

Mizzou has not had a player taken in the NBA draft since Michael Porter, Jr was taken at 14 in the 2018 draft. Porter is just one of 2 active NBA players who attended Missouri: Jordan Clarkson is the other.

That’s the same number as Pitt (Steven Adams and Justin Champagnie) and Washington State (Klay Thompson and Clay Elleby).