Late in the first round, sitting at a table with Skal Labissiere's family, Kentucky coach John Calipari held his head in his hands Thursday night and looked totally stressed. The picks were coming off the board at the Barclay Center, one after another. But Labissiere was still available. And the Raptors, who could afford to take a big swing, had already passed on him twice -- first with the ninth pick, then with the 27th.
Eventually, though, Labissiere's name was called.
The Kings took him with the 28th pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. Granted, that's not where anybody had the Kentucky product projected, and it's nowhere near where analysts thought the 6-foot-11 forward would be selected this time last year.