Even before he signed an undrafted free agent deal with the Toronto Raptors, Sagaba Konate made the correct choice. Had it resulted any differently, whether that had been being drafted or going overseas to follow in the footsteps of many past West Virginia greats, it still would have been the right choice because it was the one he made for himself.
Would Konate have improved his NBA stock with another year in Morgantown? In a perfect situation, yes. Life, however, is far from perfect and re-aggravating his lingering knee injury or worse would have at best kept his stock where it fell to this season or at worst completely snuffed it out to the point he didn’t receive a UDFA contract offer.