4.7% of NBA players went to Kentucky
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The NBA season tips off tonight and 21 Kentucky players are on opening-day rosters, the most from any program in the country. To put it into even more impressive perspective, the fine folks at UK Athletics crunched the numbers and discovered that of the 446 players in the league, approximately 4.7% played college basketball at Kentucky. That means John Calipari is halfway to his goal of having former Wildcats account for 10% of players in the NBA.
Some other awesome NBA-related stats from UK:
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The NBA season tips off tonight and 21 Kentucky players are on opening-day rosters, the most from any program in the country. To put it into even more impressive perspective, the fine folks at UK Athletics crunched the numbers and discovered that of the 446 players in the league, approximately 4.7% played college basketball at Kentucky. That means John Calipari is halfway to his goal of having former Wildcats account for 10% of players in the NBA.
Some other awesome NBA-related stats from UK:
- 4 Cats play for the Phoenix Suns (Eric Bledsoe, Devin Booker, Archie Goodwin and Brandon Knight)
- 3 Cats play for the Sacramento Kings (Willie Cauley-Stein, DeMarcus Cousins and Rajon Rondo)
- 2 Cats play for the Charlotte Hornets (Aaron Harrison, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist) and the Minnesota Timberwolves (Tayshaun Prince, Karl-Anthony Towns)
- 13: The number of years Tayshaun Prince has been in the NBA, the most of any Kentucky player currently in the league
- 19 of the Kentucky players in the league were first-round picks
- 13 went in the lottery
- 6 in the top five
- 3 at #1
- 25: The number of Kentucky players drafted in the past six years under Calipari
- $680 million: The value of Kentucky players’ current guaranteed contracts
- $780 million: The value of Calipari-coached players' current guaranteed contracts
- $1.25 billion: The value of Calipari-coached players' contracts over the course of their careers
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