With the ninth pick in Thursday's NBA Draft, the Charlotte Hornets selected former Wisconsin Badgers star Frank Kaminsky.

In a blog post dated April 30, 2014, titled "My decision to say," Kaminsky detailed a few reasons for why he was returning to school for his senior year instead of declaring for the NBA.

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One of the points he made was "I know the NBA has their crazy fans and all, but if you look at all of their games, there are games when teams get hardly any fans, and it looks flat-out boring. At the Kohl Center, we play in front of nearly 17,000 fans every single time we step onto the court."

Fast forward nearly 14 months, and Kaminsky is the newest member of the team formerly known as the Bobcats.

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