NEW YORK – Three former Kentucky men’s basketball players were awarded with NBAend-of-season honors this week, highlighted by Julius Randle’s inclusion on the All-NBA Second Team.
Randle of the New York Knicks earned All-NBA honors for the first time in his career, Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team for a second consecutive season and New York's Immanuel Quickley made the NBA All-Rookie Second Team.
Voting for the NBA awards was conducted by a global panel of 100 sportswriters and broadcasters.
With Randle’s inclusion on the All-NBA Second Team on Monday, at least one former UK player has made one of the All-NBA teams in six of the last seven seasons. Kentucky players have also made the NBA All-Defensive Team in six of the last seven seasons. A Wildcat has earned NBA All-Rookie honors in nine of the 11 seasons John Calipari’s Kentucky players have been in the pros.
Kentucky has earned nine combined All-NBA selections since 2015 from five Calipari-coached players (Randle, Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins, Karl-Anthony Towns and John Wall). Including Derrick Rose at Memphis, Calipari has coached six All-NBA players in his college career. Fifteen of his former players at Kentucky have been named NBA All-Rookie.
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