Five Iowa State teammates have made the NBA

Last Friday was the 39th anniversary of Miracle on Ice, the U.S. hockey team’s stunning Olympic upset of the Soviet Union. Last Friday also was the Thunder-Jazz NBA game. Which brought us to another miracle.

The rosters for the Thunder and Jazz combined had three University of Kentucky players – OKC’s Nerlens Noel, Patrick Patterson and Hamidou Diallo. Those same rosters combined had four Iowa State players – the Thunder’s Deonte Burton and Abdel Nader, and Utah’s Georges Niang and Naz Mitrou-Long.

“That’s rare,” said Niang.

Then Tuesday night in Denver, Burton and Nader saw another Cyclone, their old point guard Monte Morris.

All five Cyclones came from the same team, 2015-16. And the year…