MSU happy to welcome back Varnado
Sanity has somehow returned to the NBA draft process.
First there were the decisions by underclassmen who declined to declare for the draft despite the consensus that they would have been picked high in the lottery like North Carolina’s Ed Davis and Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq Aminu.
And then came the surprising announcement last week that Kentucky sophomore Patrick Patterson was withdrawing from the draft before he even worked out for a single team. Patterson would have likely been a first-round pick.
Late Monday, his SEC counterpart, Mississippi State junior Jarvis Varnado followed Patterson’s lead and returned to Starkville two weeks before the Chicago pre-draft combine and any subsequent team workouts. Varnado was one of the last players to declare for the draft, waiting until the last few hours of the April 26 deadline. Now he’s officially the second player to withdraw.
espn.com
5/12/09
