Summer in the NBA sports world can be slow, and this lack of news often turns writers into bored prognosticators. Hence, a hoard of way-too-early 2023 NBA mock drafts recently dropped. The unapologetic basketball junkies call these never-too-early mock drafts, but we can all know there is no reason these should exist a year before the first team is on the clock. So with that huge grain of salt in mind, let it be known that Cason Wallace projects to be Kentucky’s only lottery pick in next year’s draft.
Fellow freshman, Chris Livingston, is the other Wildcat consistently projected to go in the first round, with Big Blue Nation poster boy, Oscar Tshiebwe, and much-improved sophomore, Daimion Collins, finding the boards in a few mocks that took the time to explore beyond the top 30.