ESPN.com has spent the last two weeks
counting down the top 20 schools that have produced the best NBA players in the modern draft era. Coming in at No. 4 on the list in today's feature is your University of Kentucky Wildcats. The site ranked Kentucky's top 5 draftees as part of the breakdown of why
UK is ranked fourth:
Top Five NBA Draftees Since 1989:
Rajon Rondo (2006)
Antoine Walker (1996)
Jamal Mashburn (1993)
DeMarcus Cousins (2010)
John Wall (2010)
Sixth man: Tayshaun Prince (2002)
You can read the entire breakdown
here. It's a very good read.
And here are the other programs on the countdown...
20.) Syracuse
19.) Ohio State
18.) LSU
17.) Michigan State
16.) Alabama
15.) Memphis
14.) Kansas
13.) UNLV
12.) Georgia Tech
11.) Florida
10.) Texas
9.) Wake Forest
8.) Michigan
7.) UCLA
6.) Arizona
5.) Duke
4.) Kentucky
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My guess for the final three spots: (3) UConn, (2) Georgetown, (1) North Carolina
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