The UK men’s basketball program is expecting approximately 90 NBA scouts at the team’s upcoming pro days on Sunday and Monday.
The pro days were an idea developed by John Calipari (and copied by Mike Krzyzewski) to give scouts an early look at Kentucky’s future NBA players.
According to Adam Zagoria:
Freshmen Bam Adebayo (No. 10), De’Aaron Fox (12) and Malik Monk (18) are all projected one-and-done first-round picks in the latest DraftExpress.com mock for 2017.
“All 90 scouts are there to certainly see the development of Monk, Bam and Fox since arriving on campus,” one NBA scout said.
ESPNU will televise Kentucky’s practice on Sunday from 7-9 p.m.
Kentucky coach John Calipari says he talks regularly with his players about what the NBA is looking for.
“You come here, you’re on a mission, and it’s not about numbers,” he wrote on CoachCal.com. “It isn’t. It’s, ‘I want to be the best player. I want to be an efficient player. I want whatever I do to be able to transfer in that league.’ That’s what we talk about. The guys that don’t get that, I call them sometimes delusional.”
