Experts weigh in on Shaedon Sharpe's draft eligibility and future at UK

UK AthleticsWill Shaedon Sharpe play at Kentucky this season? What about the 2022-23 season? Ever?

Those questions are now all valid with the confirmation that Sharpe will be draft-eligible this offseason, as reported by ESPN’s Jonathan Givony on Thursday. The five-star guard has always met the criteria for age — he will turn 19 in May — but the details of his graduation have always always been a bit unclear.

League rules state a player must be 19 years old the year of the draft and one full NBA season removed from high school. That would require Sharpe to have completed his graduation requirements before October 2021. According to Givony, the Kentucky freshman had sufficient credits to…