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Surely you know by now that history was made at the NBA Draft Thursday night. In addition to the SEC racking up the honors, Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist made the record books by being the first teammates to be drafted first and second overall in the NBA Draft. But did you know that their going No. 1 and No. 2 is historic in more than just professional basketball?
Guy Ramsey and media relations assistant Alex Combs at the UK Athletics Cat Scratches blog did some research and found that such a thing is rare in all four major American sports.
It’s never happened in the NBA, MLB and NHL, and hasn’t happened in the NFL since 2000, when Courtney Brown and LaVar Arrington were taken first and second overall out of Penn State. It also happened in 1984 (Irving Fryar and Dean Steinkuhler from Nebraska) and 1967 (Bubba Smith and Clint Jones from Michigan State).
Taking things a step further, it’s only the fifth time two teammates have been selected at the top of a draft. In the NHL, where players are drafted from amateur club teams more often than colleges, teammates from Canadian club teams were taken first in second in 1969 (Rejean Houle and Marc Tardif from the Montreal Junior Canadiens) and 1963 (Garry Monahan and Pete Mahovlich from the St. Michael’s Juveniles).
I bet you didn’t expect to read about Canadian junior hockey today, did you?
For clarification: Only four times in the history of the NBA, MLB, NFL and NHL have two college teammates been taken No. 1 and No. 2 in their respective drafts. The three times it has happened in the NFL, and Davis and Kidd-Gilchrist just the other night in the NBA. The two other times it has happened in the NHL, those were not college players.
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June 30th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
How much $ are these guys making?
June 30th, 2012 at 1:52 pm
Not sure exactly but I was curious about this earlier this morning and found out (as an example what Kyrie Irving and last years money looked like). Found this:
The number one pick in 2011 Irving is guaranteed $4.4 million for the first year, and $4.75 million for the second year. The numbers decrease the lower the player is picked, so the number 30 player only got $877,000 his first year.
This is just the teams contract and not other income from shoe deals, commercials, etc…
June 30th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
In the UK-UNC game last Dec, there were EIGHT players who would be drafted first round of the NEXT NBA draft. Can that be said about any other game in NCAA history? I dont think so.
June 30th, 2012 at 2:06 pm
3…I hear ya and I don’t think so either.
June 30th, 2012 at 3:52 pm
What’s the point of linking someone else’s work if you copy the entire text