{"id":113142,"date":"2025-06-20T23:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/113142\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T23:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T23:05:08","slug":"two-kentucky-wildcats-projected-for-nba-draft-by-jay-bilas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/113142\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Kentucky Wildcats projected for NBA draft by Jay Bilas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NBA draft is now less than a week away, and teams are finalizing their big boards. As it approaches, analysts are also making their final mock drafts and last minute predictions. ESPN&#8217;s Jay Bilas had a few thoughts on the draft as it concerns Kentucky basketball.<\/p>\n<p>The Wildcats aren&#8217;t expected to have the kind of presence in the draft that they have in recent years. However, they do have a few players who could hear their names called. Bilas thinks that two of them will.<\/p>\n<p>Guard Koby Brea and center Amari Williams are the two most likely former Wildcats to be selected, and Bilas sees them both being taken.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/kentucky-wildcats\/news\/espn-jay-bilas-high-kentuckys-koby-brea-amari-williams-2025-nba-draft-picks\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Speaking with Kentucky Sports Radio<\/a>, he had some thoughts on both players. Of Brea, he said:<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got him as sort of an early second-round pick. I ranked him in the 30s\u2026 I thought for a time last year that Koby Brea was the best shooter in the country. I put (Kon) Knueppel and Texas\u2019 Tre Johnson just a little bit higher than that, but we\u2019re splitting hairs a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>On Williams, he said:<\/p>\n<p>Very good passing big guy, he can get the ball at the elbow and hit cutters, and so he\u2019s got a lot of good traits as a big guy. Really good hands, left-handed, but had some excellent games, and he\u2019s a good rebounder and a good offensive rebounder.<\/p>\n<p>Both players are talented and could develop into solid NBA players. On Wednesday, we&#8217;ll find out if Bilas was right about them being drafted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NBA draft is now less than a week away, and teams are finalizing their big boards. As&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,319,325,98,130,133,12039,131,234,3075,70,85,6,12,67,61,134,132,1116,13435,66,83,235],"class_list":{"0":"post-113142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-sports","11":"tag-draft","12":"tag-espn","13":"tag-espn-inc","14":"tag-hub","15":"tag-inc","16":"tag-kentucky","17":"tag-kentucky-wildcats","18":"tag-national","19":"tag-national-sports","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nba-draft","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-overall","24":"tag-overall-positive","25":"tag-positive","26":"tag-sec","27":"tag-sec-hub","28":"tag-sports","29":"tag-sports-news","30":"tag-wildcats"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114718200645810829","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}