I'm not posting that tweet to bring any attention to Mike, who seems like a nice guy. I'm only posting it because it's the most common question I get any time I mention an underwhelming college player is entering the NBA Draft. And I genuinely never understand the question. So I guess I'll respond to that question with some other questions. Like ... Ready for what? And who the hell cares? Now, to be clear, we could have a long conversation about whether Labissiere will start his professional career in the D-League, and we could debate for hours if he'll ever be a relevant NBA player. But, for the purposes of this column, those things are totally beside the point. Because the bottom line is the bottom line, and the point is this: Skal Labissiere will almost certainly get picked in the first round of June's NBA Draft, and probably in the lottery of June's NBA Draft. And that means he'll spend next season playing basketball somewhere for a paycheck in excess of $1.5 million rather than competing for playing time, and possibly further damaging his NBA stock, at Kentucky. And people are questioning whether this is wise? Get out of my face. Right now, there are still NBA franchises that remain more intrigued with Labissiere's skillset and upside than they are concerned with his lack of production at the collegiate level. But what would happen if the 7-foot forward returned to Kentucky, struggled again and got caught in a numbers game with UK's returning bigs and UK's three top-30 national recruits who are frontcourt players -- most notably Bam Adebayo and Wenyen Gabriel? - See more at:http://www.cbssports.com/collegebas...-sensible-move-and-entered-the-2016-nba-draft
