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Willie Cauley-Stein ready to start with blank canvas in Houston

Amateur artists paint with the colors of the rainbow, but the extraordinary ones utilize the full spectrum within the personality of Willie Cauley-Stein.

There has never been a more interesting man to don the Kentucky Wildcat basketball uniform than Willie Cauley-Stein. Unlike most NBA players during the Calipari era, Willie stuck around three years in Lexington before entering his name into the draft, where he went #6 overall to the Sacramento Kings in 2015. The only Kentucky player drafted higher since was De’Aaron Fox at No. 5 (also to the Kings) in 2017.