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You might notice something the top three players in our 2014 Insider top 25 under 25 rankings of young NBA talent have in common. Big Blue Nation surely will. The three players our voting panel considers most promising in the league -- Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and John Wall -- all played for coach John Calipari at Kentucky.
Calipari's influence extends beyond the top three. Kentucky products Brandon Knight (21) and Julius Randle (23) appear lower on the list, and Nerlens Noel also received a vote. The list reinforces the theory that when it comes to producing NBA talent, at this point there's Calipari -- and everyone else.
One-and-done domination
Since arriving in Lexington in 2009, Calipari has played a different game than the rest of the big-time college hoops programs.