Azubuike led Kentucky in scoring with 14.7 points per game as a junior and earned All-SEC Second Team honors while helping the Wildcats to two SEC titles and two Elite Eight appearances during the Tubby Smith era. He went undrafted in 2005 but refused to quit, averaging 26.0 points in the D-League before earning a call-up to the Golden State Warriors, where he played five NBA seasons and had his restricted free agency matched at $9 million. He is now the Warriors' television color analyst — proof that the path from Kentucky to the NBA doesn't always follow a straight line.