LEXINGTON, Ky. (WDRB) — D.J. Wagner did not have to strain to be reminded of the expectations that will rage around him as he begins his work as the latest greatest recruit John Calipari landed for the University of Kentucky men’s basketball program.
All Wagner had to do was turn around.
There they were, arranged on a glossy display across a bright blue wall behind him. From Pat Riley in 1967 to Immanuel Quickley in 2020, 51 black-and-white snapshots of former UK players who left the program as first-round NBA Draft picks.
As a headliner in Calipari’s top-ranked class, does Wagner envision himself on that wall, somewhere with Devin Booker, Jamal Murray, De’Aaron Fox and others you watched excel in the NBA playoffs READ MORE
