Michael Kidd-Gilchrist: Draft Profile

Gilchrist has been one of the best young talents in the league and it has payed off because he will be drafted pretty earrly. Coming out of highschool he was expected to be a good player that would develop into one of the best. This was not the case. Gilchrist came in and made an immeadiate impact having over ten points in his first two games and at least 7 rebouds. Even though he was not very consistent, Gilchrist still ened up averaging 11.8 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game. Some of his highlight games were against Louisville in the regular season where he dropped 24 points and picked up 19 rebounds. Also against Indiana in the tournament where he had 24 points and 10 rebounds leading them to victory against a team they had lost to in the regular season. Gilchrist was not the main reason why Kentucky has such a succesful season ending with a championship but he was a pretty big part of it. If you tuned in to ESPN recently you would find that Kentucky's starting five have all declared for the draft. Gilchrist, being part of that starting five is projected to go second overal behind his teammate, Anthony Davis, who I will be writing about in the near future. Gilchrist is in NBA shape weighing in at 232 pounds and standing at 6 feet 7 inches tall. If he plays in the NBA he will probably play at the small forward position. Playing at an NBA draft center, Kentucky, Gilchrist has already had to play at small forward which might make it a more smooth transition to the NBA. Although I believe that Thomas Robinson should go second overal, I still give mad props to Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, forward for Kentucky