Malik Monk and De’Aaron Fox are the top two available guards in the class of 2016 and projected 2017 NBA Draft lottery picks.
Could they both end up at the same school playing in college?
Fox recently talked to DraftExpress.com about the two possibly teaming up in college.
Kansas and Kentucky are the only schools the two players have in common as possibilities and they are coming off visits from both schools together for their Midnight Madness Events.
“Oh yeah I do [think we could play together], we’ve talked about it,” Fox said at the recent USA Basketball mini-camp in Colorado. “We were in the Bahamas together. We were there for a couple days together. We talked about the recruiting process. It’s not set in stone that we’ll go to the same school but it’s a possibility.”
Now even Oak Hill Academy coach believes the two could end up at the same school after speaking with his star player Harry Giles, who visited Kentucky and Kansas with Monk and Fox.
“Fox and Monk both went to Kansas with him and they were both at Kentucky with him, so he kind of told me where they’re leaning but I’m not saying” Smith said. “I’m keeping my mouth shut.”
“Some point guards want to play together,” Fox said. “Some twos are coming into point guards, guys talk about playing together at the next level. At Kentucky with John Wall and Eric Bledsoe, they’re both point guards in the NBA and they both came together at Kentucky. Guys want to play together, guys want to play with elite players at their position. It’s competitive every day. You don’t want to go to a practice and it’s not competitive, you just run through people.”
So it seems like there is a legitimate chance of UK landing both elite players for next season.
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