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Rumors run rampant the days and nights before every professional draft. This year’s NBA Draft is no different.

Since the night of the lottery drawing, when Daniel Gilbert’s courageous and young son ended up securing Cleveland the No. 1 pick, it was thought that Duke guard Kyrie Irving would end up being the first player selected by the Cavaliers.

Since then, especially this week, however, there have been reports that Cleveland might be waffling on Irving and could take Arizona’s Derrick Williams or even ex-UK student assistant Enes Kanter with the top pick. Jay Bilas says don’t believe it. He knows who the Cavs are picking.

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Despite some projection boards which have former Kentucky student assistant Enes Kanter rated as the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, ESPN’s Brian Windhorst says the Cavs are set to take Duke point guard Kyrie Irving.

Still think the Cavs will take Kanter with the No. 4 pick, if Cleveland can’t trad up to get Arizona forward Derrick Williams.

The key question is where will UK guard Brandon Knight end up? Word is some clubs do not like the way Knight has been handling the workout process, and it could end up dropping him a few spots. But today is a big day for Brandon. He has a private workout with the Utah Jazz.

As for Windhorst, he is a former Cleveland Plain Dealer who was hired by ESPN to concentrate on LeBron James, whom he has known since high school. Windhorst still has connections to the Cavs’ front office. The guess here is that he’s right about Cleveland targeting Irving.