Kentucky men’s basketball fans buzzing over new offensive scheme showcased at Banner Camp
Kentucky holds one record year after year: the most players on NBA rosters of any college. This year is no exception, as they have 31 players currently listed on an NBA roster. This may go down some as the final roster trimming hasn’t happened yet. That date is October 21, which is the day before the official NBA season begins.
Kentucky, with 31 players in the NBA right now, is blowing all the competition out of the water. The next closest college is Duke, at 25, and then it’s a significant drop-off to UCLA, at 16. There is only one other SEC team that even makes it to double digits: Arkansas, with 11.
It is still very much true that if you want to go to the NBA, the best program to attend is the University of Kentucky. No one has produced more NBA talent than the Wildcats. They have produced 132 NBA players in their lifetime. The next closest program is UCLA, with 104, followed by North Carolina, with 102, and Duke, with 100, according to collegetransitions.com, which has been keeping track of the running total for a few years now.
We will see what the final totals come in after October 21, as there will likely be a drop in all of these totals above. However, with such a lead, Kentucky will continue its run of having the most NBA players.
The men’s basketball X account posted a video of a “look inside” the last week of basketball practice that Head Coach Mark Pope has affectionately called “Banner Camp.” The name implies where Kentucky basketball has been, with lots of National Championship banners hung on the way and the goal to hang another one, knowing the work starts in the first week of practice.
Pope wanted his team and the fans to run with the quote, “The magic you are searching for is in the work you are avoiding.” This quote came up multiple times throughout the video and is an exceptional quote, but it’s not what Kentucky basketball fans reacted to or ran with. It was something they noticed in the video itself: a passing attack offense.
