According to a tweet from our robotic lord, Jon Rothstein, Sagaba Konate has informed him that he will declare for the 2019 NBA Draft after flirting with the decision last year.
That is disheartening news to the West Virginia Mountaineers who played most of the 2018-19 season without their feared shotblocker and struggled to one of the worst seasons including a season-embarrassing loss to Coastal Carolina in the College Basketball Invitational.
The good news is that while Konate may intend to declare, it doesn’t mean he is 100% gone. Thanks in part of the college-wide scandal that saw several schools get caught in the net of the federal investigation, the NCAA was required to change some of its outdated amateur rules for “student”-athletes.