Nine short months ago, we watched Brandon Boston Jr. cap off his disappointing (albeit brief) Kentucky career with zero points in a season-ending loss to Mississippi State. It was a lost season for the former five-star recruit, just as it was for his team; once a surefire top-five pick, Boston fell all the way to 51st in July’s NBA draft.
What once seemed like a surefire trajectory to stardom now looked like an uphill battle. And just to make it all that much harder, he had to climb that hill without his best friend, Terrence Clarke.