Found April 18, 2012 on Today's ACC Headlines:
KIDD-GILCHRIST (2nd from left)''I want to spoil my mom. I think I'm going to spoil my mom to death. That's one thing I'm looking forward to. I'm ready, I think. I'm ready for anything that comes my way now.''

Eighteen-year-old Kentucky freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist after he and the other four Kentucky starters declared for the NBA draft. 

Wildcat freshmen Anthony Davis, Kidd-Gilchrist and Marquis Teague, and sophomores Terrence Jones and Doron Lamb declared for the draft in a nationally televised news conference Tuesday night.
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