Calipari offered the message during Monday’s SEC Basketball coaches’ teleconference. “I made the statement, and I’ll make it again, that it (NBA Draft) was the biggest day in Kentucky basketball history,” Calipari said, “and I wasn’t talking to the past. I was talking to the future.” There’s nothing taken out of context there. No rest of the quote. Nothing omitted. Calipari certainly had reason to be proud UK made history by becoming the first team in NCAA history to produce five first-round NBA draft picks in a single year. But to say it was the biggest day in history for a traditional powerhouse with seven national championships? Calipari’s attempt to somehow justify that comment on the SEC teleconference failed. “It was a two-hour infomercial for our league, for the University of Kentucky, and it will speak volumes for the next five years, maybe longer — that’s what I meant by it,” Calipari said, still defending his ridiculous statement."