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Kentucky drivers continued their climb up our annual rankings this year. The Bluegrass State was eighth in 2020 and now ranks fourth. Drivers here do well in all but one statistical category. Kentucky ranks 41st in speeding, 46th in accidents and 48th in citations but struggles with a relatively high number of DUIs. We found that Kentucky had the 19th most DUIs.
 
Don’t like that one bit. Unlike Hami he’ll be good enough to leave.

On top of the Bona winds still blowing towards UCLA it’s a tad bit worrisome.
 
It’s a Cal plan. Get Sharpe here early so he CANT leave for the G-League or anywhere else unexpectedly, once he is here he falls in love with the program/fans/college life/etc. Extra practice, learn the system, no worries about not showing up.
 
Sharpe will be 19 in May and came from Canada. I don’t think it would be a huge reach for him to be eligible for the ‘22 Draft.
 
Believing UK will beat the Dawgs is more likely than believing Matt Jones first political donations of his life were to Charles Booker, of all candidates. I would have at least expected a benjamin to Amy McMaverick.

If Gruden were a habitual druggie or beat women, he would still be in the league, no questions asked.
UKO, Tyler Hansbrough has a message for you.

 
Don’t like that one bit. Unlike Hami he’ll be good enough to leave.

On top of the Bona winds still blowing towards UCLA it’s a tad bit worrisome.

I could be wrong here, but I pulled up the CBA and I'm not sure Sharpe will be eligible for the NBA draft next year and that it's not a Diallo situation.

From the CBA, to be draft eligble: "The player (A) is or will be at least nineteen (19) years of age during the calendar year in which the Draft is held, and (B) with respect to a player who is not an international player (defined below), at least one (1) NBA Season has elapsed since the player’s graduation from high school (or, if the player did not graduate from high school, since the graduation of the class with which the player would have graduated had he graduated from high school)."

Diallo graduated from high school in the Spring of 2016 and was playing as a post-grad at Putnam Science Academy before early enrollment with UK in January of 2017. Since he was 19 in 2017 and one NBA season ('16-'17) season had elapsed since he graduated high school, he was eligible for the 2017 NBA Draft.

The new NBA season starts next week. If Sharpe graduates after his first semester in high school later this Fall/early Winter and comes to UK in the second semester I don't see that meeting the requirement of at least 1 NBA season elapsing since the player graduated high school. Of course, that all depends on how you would define and apply "elapse" since it's not a defined term in the CBA. I believe that would be interpreted as one full NBA season.

He also wouldn't meet the definition of an "international player" as it's defined as "(c) For purposes of this Article X, an “international player” is a player: (i) who has maintained a permanent residence outside of the United States for at least the three (3) years prior to the Draft, while participating in the game of basketball as an amateur or as a professional outside of the United States; (ii) who has never previously enrolled in a college or university in the United States; and (iii) who did not complete high school in the United States." As he would have graduated high school in the U.S., he's not getting through as an "international player."

Maybe some of the law dogs on here can look through this further, but to me if he graduates high school in the middle of this coming NBA season and comes to UK in the second semester, he's still not draft eligible and would purely be coming to UK to train/mesh with the team early.
 
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Like I said, he’s Canadian and has went to two different prep schools, he could have already “graduated”. If you haven’t noticed over the last few years players can reclassify and graduate at the drop of the hat.

And according to the CBA Emoni Bates couldn’t be in the ‘22 draft either. You really think he plans on staying at Memphis for 2 years?

Im dropping the argument though so we can all bask in the glory of the Hansbrough Cameo.
 
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I was 10 at the time so I don't really remember the details on this, but Netflix has a docu-series called "Bad Sport" and the first episode is on the point shaving scandal for the '93-'94 Arizona State basketball team. Really fascinating stuff.

The game footage of the fixed games is hilarious/sad in spots with how their point guard was trying to make sure the games finished under or over a certain line. Of course word naturally leaks out on campus and you ended up having tons of these kids from ASU rolling up to Vegas laying down all the money they had on the games that were fixed. In one game against Washington there was so much action the line moved 9 whole points... just unreal and stupidly obvious. They're down big in that game and the head coach at halftime drops a bomb that the FBI had contacted the school to advise the game was under investigation, so naturally they go off in the second half and win by close to 20. Not obvious at all.

Here's a pretty good write up for anyone interested: https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2018/12/11/point-shaving-scandal-rocked-arizona-state/
 
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