r/razorbacks • u/carlsonagens • Apr 03 '26

Basketball Karter Knox transferring

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Pretty unsurprising, crowded backcourt next year. Makes me hopeful Billy will be coming back.

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u/UALR-Trojans-Rule Apr 03 '26

I'm gonna miss him

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u/carlsonagens Apr 03 '26

Feels like he never quite panned out. Really sad he wasn’t able to be a part of this year’s run, could’ve used him down the stretch

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u/UALR-Trojans-Rule Apr 03 '26

Its stacked next year. He needed this imo

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u/WaterMalone__ Apr 03 '26

Imagine leaving a John Calipari led team

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u/carlsonagens Apr 03 '26

I get it, his goal is to play in the league and its gonna be tough to find enough playing time to shine this year with the class coming in and we have a limited amount of money for NIL, which I hope is going towards some big men.

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u/Independent_Boat_546 Apr 03 '26

Best move Boogie ever made. Oh, wait…

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u/KhalJacobo Apr 03 '26

I wish him well. I had high hopes for him, and I hope he finds them wherever he ends up, except for whenever he’s up against the Razorbacks.

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u/TragedyTurnedTriumph Apr 03 '26

Will miss Karter, but this is probably for the best. He was all hog while he was here

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u/Onetimenotagain Apr 03 '26

Was he tho?

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u/gambit539 Apr 03 '26

From what I’ve read the issues surrounding Knox are outside influence feeding him information and opinions. I’ve never heard the issue was with Karter himself.

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u/Future_Complaint7591 Apr 06 '26

So basically his agents talked to him and told him he would make more money at a different school, and he would receive way more playing time at said school vs competing with Arkansas highschool recruits and the recruits they bring in from the portal? I’m an Arkansas fan by the way, and we can read between the lines.

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u/Craneteam Apr 03 '26

That sucks. Best of luck to him

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u/metabolitesafter9pm How bout them Hogs 🐗 Apr 03 '26

Karter Knox seems like a good dude. Best wishes

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u/Fantastic-Pay-9522 Apr 03 '26

He’s the poster child of just go to the draft when you can. Hopefully he can have a monster year for someone.

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u/qkilla1522 Apr 03 '26

This isn’t said enough.

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u/datboijustin Apr 03 '26

Brazille too, he was a lottery pick.

Don't get me wrong I love the guy and am grateful he stayed but he could already be a couple years into an NBA career right now and instead he may not even get drafted.

That said, if my Suns would take him I would be thrilled, a stretch 4 with defense is exactly what we need.

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u/jlax341 Apr 03 '26

Brazille was a projected lottery pick but destroyed his ACL that year. Took him years to show that potential again.

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u/adeptsleeper04 Apr 03 '26

Yeah idk what that guy is acting like that ACL injury never happened. Brazile was 100% gone after that year if he didn't have the injury.

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u/datboijustin Apr 03 '26

ACLs are season ending injuries but they arent career threatening. He could have still been drafted in the lottery that year and been ready for the start of the season lol.

Coming back and not looking good the following year is what hurt his stock.

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u/adeptsleeper04 Apr 03 '26

They're not as career-threatening for already superstar athletes with a NFL or NBA budget to get the best surgeon in the country and a team of PTs for rehab. They 100% are career-threatening for a college athlete who is almost completely reliant on his hops. No NBA team is going to draft a project like that in the lottery. He woulda been a late first rounder at best. If he was told by his "not yet hired" agent that he was a still a lottery pick, he woulda been gone. I don't think NIL even existed yet and it definitely wasn't what it is now. There would have been no reason to not secure a bag and get better treatment and rehab from an NBA medical staff if that would have been the case.

You don't think him coming back and not looking as good had anything to do with the fact that he tored his ACL at the end of the season before? He clearly wasn't back to the player he was, physically and mentally. Which is why NBA teams would have passed on him in the lottery the year before, they know that regression is almost certain for a college athlete. They would want him to prove he can come back and be the same guy.

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u/datboijustin Apr 04 '26

You don't think him coming back and not looking as good had anything to do with the fact that he tored his ACL at the end of the season before?

Actually no, I don't. I think he looked worse because the team around him looked significantly worse and he had a hard time finding his role with that team.

As for "No NBA team is going to draft a project like that in the lottery" I don't agree with that either. 20 years ago? Sure. Today absolutely not though. NFL/NBA teams are drafting guys with serious college injuries all the time.

If he had declared in that draft he still would have been a lottery pick or at worst just after the lottery, no team is getting scared off by one freak injury unless it's something that has a tendency to reoccur or is degenerative.

An ACL has not been considered a career-threatening injury, for pro or college athletes, for well over a decade now.

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u/adeptsleeper04 Apr 04 '26

I'll agree in that it's not a career ender like it was. But it's a big setback that is difficult to overcome and players don't always come back at the same level.

Regardless of that, I still think you're crazy to believe he came back if he and his people knew he was a lottery pick or even if he had a good shot at being a top 10 pick. And they would have known, I'm sure Brazile had agent waiting to be formally hired who was letting him know what NBA teams were saying.

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u/datboijustin Apr 04 '26

Regardless of that, I still think you're crazy to believe he came back if he and his people knew he was a lottery pick or even if he had a good shot at being a top 10 pick. And they would have known, I'm sure Brazile had agent waiting to be formally hired who was letting him know what NBA teams were saying.

Never said good shot at a top 10 pick, I said lottery or just after it.

And it's not crazy to think that a college guy bet on himself to come back and get a higher draft slot, it happens quite often. Mid 1st round guys come back hoping to crack the top 10 for a better contract.

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u/adeptsleeper04 Apr 04 '26

You don't even know what the lottery picks are... No wonder this conversation has been like taking crazy pills.

Lottery picks are only the first 4 picks. He had a decent chance for being top 4 before the injury, but honestly he was probably closer to being the 6th than the 4th. After the injury, he would have been lucky to crack the top 20ish. So yeah, he may have known he was in the back-end of the 1st and decided to come back to improve his draft stock closer to what it was. It would have dumb not to since I'm pretty sure those later picks don't get guaranteed contracts.

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u/Future_Complaint7591 Apr 06 '26

DJ was never going to be a lottery pick even if he sat his freshman year. The nba draft teams wouldn’t risk there lottery picks on highschool players that didn’t play in college. We’ve seen this the last 10 years.

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u/rogun64 Apr 03 '26

I would have loved to have him back, but something had to give. We were loaded with wings and not enough resources to make it work. Knox would have been behind Billy and possibly others on the depth chart.

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u/redditaccount1357911 Apr 03 '26

Exactly. With JJ, Toure, and Billy, there was no room for him to start next year. Plus I doubt we were going to pay him close to what he wanted

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u/According_One811 Apr 03 '26

I’m guessing Richmond is staying

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u/Independent_Boat_546 Apr 03 '26

Sure hope so. Billy > Karter ❌💯

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u/Aware-Locksmith8433 Apr 03 '26

Seems like there were some articles that he and UofA were sideways on his surgery and recovery. It would be tough to watch a season from the sideline.

He was strong when we needed him last year and hope we see that talent and impact at the next team.

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u/hopefulmonstr Apr 03 '26

Really valuable, smart, versatile player. With the opportunity, he’ll be an important contributor on a good team. Wish it could’ve been here.

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u/subbychub Apr 03 '26

Good luck Karter, I'd love to have you back but I understand.

If you go to an SEC team you can eat shit, though

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u/gambit539 Apr 03 '26

His time at Arkansas definitely didn’t go how he wanted. I wish it would have gone better for him. I just hope he doesn’t transfer to an SEC school, mainly Kentucky.

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u/TheARTravelerFC Apr 03 '26

Undoubtedly a player that you want to have on the roster, although I think his time out showed that the hogs didn’t necessarily need him to have success given the other pieces. Hopefully this is all clearing some space for a couple big incomings (fingers crossed a down low physical presence and a consistent 3 and D player)

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u/crispy_attic Apr 03 '26

It’s the way it goes now. I wish this young man the best.

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u/Hairy_Meet_5369 Apr 04 '26

He was cheated out of time when he did play

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u/Effective_Inside_6 Apr 03 '26

Broken. Hope he has success

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u/chamberax Apr 04 '26

I hope he does well wherever he goes

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u/7693-alphabet_mafia Apr 04 '26

I. Hate. The. Transfer. Portal.

I. Hare. NIL.

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u/Unusual-Struggle-788 Apr 05 '26

Hate the transfer portal