No. 2: Shaedon Sharpe, Kentucky
Shaedon Sharpe is the other Canadian player at the top of the draft. He and Mathurin could be the highest pair of Canadians ever taken near the top of the draft.
While Mathurin has given scouts plenty to evaluate his game over two seasons at Arizona, Sharpe did not play during his tenure with the Kentucky Wildcats. A top prospect in the 2022 class, Sharpe reclassified and enrolled in college in January instead, but he did not play at UK.
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Even so, Sharpe has found a way to improve his draft stock during the predraft process.
Sharpe will need to play five-on-five basketball rather than one-on-one in the league. But during the predraft process, he can showcase plenty of what people did not see at Kentucky.
Still, going into college, Sharpe was an elite player, and he has not put out any film to the contrary.