For the second straight year, the University of Kentucky figured prominently in a NBA Draft. Only in comparison to last year's unprecedented five first-round picks would two players taken among the first eight Thursday night seem less than extraordinary.
Enes Kanter, the would-be UK player who never got the chance to play college basketball after being ruled permanently ineligible by the NCAA, was taken by the Utah Jazz with the third pick in the 2011 draft.
By contrast to the widespread speculation that Kanter would be picked third, former UK point guard Brandon Knight slipped to the eighth pick when he was taken by the Detroit Pistons. He did not work out for the Pistons before the draft, and now will join another former UK star, Tayshaun Prince, in the Motor City.
Knight declared himself "ecstatic" to be going to Detroit.
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