John Calipari has dominated both college basketball recruiting and the NBA Draft since arriving at Kentucky in 2009. The former Memphis, UMass and Nets coach has seen three of his UK former players drafted No. 1 overall, three more than the program had since the first NBA Draft in 1947.
He has plenty of supporters and devote followers but also a plethora of haters, who bombarded Twitter on Thursday during the NBA Draft:


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