Not even a week ago, Keldon Johnson announced that he planned to declare for the NBA Draft. Many tried to analyze his word choice about his “hope to be a lottery pick” and made it sound like that was a hard cutoff for him to stay in the draft. Then when several mock drafts had him projected around No. 20, some in BBN started getting excited.
Not so fast.
According to Drew Franklin at KSR, Johnson’s early feedback has been very positive, so much that the chances of him returning to UK “are slimmer than slim to none.