When was Sharpe ineligible for the draft? When he didn’t graduate a full year before the 2022 NBA draft and thus was not eligible for the 2022 draft per NBA rules. Then in April of 2022, 2 months before the NBA draft, his high school magically found paperwork and said he graduated in May of 2021.
So sharpe wasn’t made eligible for the draft until 2 months prior to the draft? Weird!!!! Guess the news that broke in January of 2022 was all just fake news that we bought into. 😂 at you!!!
Hell no it wouldn’t have and it would have made that team infinitely better. To have a dude who could beat his man and shoot from outside. He’s a selfish jackass and I hope he trips over his feet and never plays again.
That’s how you know that cal knew. That was the spin cal tried putting on is that sharpe would play for UK the next year and then act all blindsided when he didn’t.
That’s one thing about Cal I absolutely hate, it used to be Succed and proceed and then after 2015 he just said screw it. Proceed and damn the wins at all.
Cal took him if he knew or not if he would play. and sharp wouldn’t have had a path to not play if one had not been paved for him, say, by someone with authority. and he contributed nothing to the team by sitting on the bench all season, because someone with the authority to allow or disallow him to do so, allowed it.
I personally don't care if that's what would have happened. Have some integrity, FFS. It was wrong the first time. Cal knew damn well what was going on, and he doubled down on his generational poverty mission (at the expense of UK's success) by mocking the fans and asking them to come out and watch him practice. It's disgusting. I can't wait for the day that Cal is nowhere near the program and we don't have to see him damage the product on the court every game.
Yeah, the school came out and said he graduated in April, 2 months before the draft like I said. He allegedly graduated HS in May then came back to high school in the fall after graduating, played basketball for them, and graduated again in December.So sharpe wasn’t made eligible for the draft until 2 months prior to the draft? Weird!!!! Guess the news that broke in January of 2022 was all just fake news that we bought into. 😂 at you!!!
Jonathan Givony, ESPNJan 20, 2022, 01:48 PM ET
Shaedon Sharpe, who was ESPN's No. 1 prospect in the 2022 high school class before he joined the Kentucky Wildcats in early January, can apply for the 2022 NBA draft as an early-entry candidate, a source told ESPN on Thursday.
that intuition thing still not working well for you. Why don’t you take a rest and catch your breath before your next clever comeback. Think this one took a lot out of you.
Cal knew damn well that a guy not eligible for the draft when he committed would be eligible for the draft? OK Karen.
Well , either he knew or he got played like a fiddle. I don’t know which is worse .
Everyone did, he was a 2022 recruit who played in the fall of 2021 and supposedly graduated in December and enrolled early. By every know indication he was ineligible for the 2022 draft because he didn’t graduate a year before the draft… until he magically did. Why do you think he should have known the school would pull out a magic May graduation after saying he graduated in December?
No they did not. He was eligible for the draft in January 2022 (see date of article) The school did not have to release a statement in April 2022 saying anything about his graduation date. The only speculation was did he graduate in May of 21 or by October of 21 but it was well known by all he had sufficient credits for graduation prior to the start of the nba season and with his age he would indeed be eligible for the draft. This was all made known publicly in January 2022 and sharpes camp said this was known all along but did not change the plan. All of this is easily verified as you continue to point out but you just refuse to see the truth.
Uh yeah, they absolutely did. Sharpe committed in November, it was assumed by everyone that he graduated in the first semester of the 2021-22 school year because he played high school basketball then. The Givony article was from January and cites an unnamed source. I guess Cal should have looked 3 months into the future and read Givony’s article about Sharpe. He should have known the who played High School basketball in October actually graduated in May and was eligible for the draft. That’s laughable.
I might buy into that if Cal hadn’t allowed Diallio to do the same thing. He only came back because he didn’t get the draft projection he was hoping for.
Only a dope, and a Louisville student would ask for the accused to prove their innocence. Nobody has to prove a negative. You make the ridiculous, brain dead accusation. You prove it.
Never. If it bothers you that much that UK fans aren't cool with the program being used by the likes of Sharpe, then you can go.
Couldn't care less. You're there to play, and if you don't want to do that for whatever reason when you're physically capable of doing so, then GTFO.
You’re not very good at this. First of all, sharpe committed in September, not November. The verification by the high school you are referring to in April 2022 was them confirming his graduation date of May. This wasn’t new information they were releasing rather confirming. Reports of him enrolling for the fall semester despite having sufficient credits for graduation are easily found. His enrolling and playing (if he did, as I didn’t keep up with him) I can’t speak of as unsure what rules are in place in that regard.
It wasn't at the expense of the team. Sharpe was never going to play once he became eligible for the draft. The team was what it was going to be at that point. If anything, one could argue that practicing against Sharpe could have improved the players competing against him in practice - though I think marginally if at all.
I remember when it was announced the Sharpe was eligible for the draft. Everyone who knew anything said Sharpe was a lotto pick and that he wouldn't play in college. Yet, Calipari continued to say that Sharpe was coming back to UK to play.
But, when you are projected Top 5. How do you improve your stock? Had he come out and scored 25 a game and grabbed 10 boards, he doesn't move in the draft. Had he played, turned his ankle or not played as well as expected, he would have fallen. That's the long way of saying the risk outweighed the reward.
Yeah, it's hard to argue with that. When you think of it from a parent perspective, it changes your thinking. From a UK POV, it just stinks.
You’re not very good at this. You don’t even know the qualifications to enter the NBA draft but make these broad proclamations. You think a dude legitimately graduated from HS in May and returned the next school year and played basketball. You lack basic common sense and have an anti Cal agenda. Any ignorance to be negative. Going back to high school after graduating makes sense to you, well your agenda anyway. Always ignorance followed by “reports” just like all the Klutch lies.You’re not very good at this. First of all, sharpe committed in September, not November. The verification by the high school you are referring to in April 2022 was them confirming his graduation date of May. This wasn’t new information they were releasing rather confirming. Reports of him enrolling for the fall semester despite having sufficient credits for graduation are easily found. His enrolling and playing (if he did, as I didn’t keep up with him) I can’t speak of as unsure what rules are in place in that regard.
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Shaedon Sharpe being eligible for the next NBA draft is not news to Kentucky. It’s not a new development. It’s something neither Sharpe’s camp nor UK wanted out because of all the speculation it would create. As of today, whether he plays this year or not, he plans to stay at UK.
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I do know the qualifications for entering the nba draft. You have to graduate one year before the start of the nba season and turn 19 during the draft year. Where in my post do I state otherwise? As long as he has enough credits to graduate by the start of the NBA season in 2022 he was eligible which is apparently what occurred. Was his true graduation date May or October the only true question but either way he met the qualification of being eligible. Everyone knew this when sharpe reclassified in November. It’s plausible this was not known by cal in September when he accepted his commitment but he would have certainly known following the reclass unless of course you think cal is just stupid. It was very apparent in January that sharpe would never play here yet cal let him stay on the team. So assume for a second cal is just stupid (not that far fetched) and got blindsided by this he could easily asked sharpe to leave the team since he refused to play, but he didn’t as he knew that was the plan all along.
