Kevin Knox: NBA team at combine kept asking me about a child I don't have

Kevin Knox, the former Kentucky forward and potential lottery pick in Thursday's draft, said one NBA team at the combine persistently asked him if he had a child, according to Sports Illustrated's Jake Fischer.

Knox, who has no children, said the team continued to ask the question repeatedly until finally admitting that it had no information about the 18-year-old ever having a child.

In other fields, interviews featuring questions from out of left field have become commonplace as employers attempt to sort through potential candidates in cutthroat industries. For instance, interviews at Google were once famously purported to include logic riddles, such as: How would the job candidate react if shrunk to the size of a nickel and thrown into a blender, which would be turned on in 60 seconds?

But Knox's case seems less in line with Silicon Valley shenanigans and more akin to questions asked in bad faith in football circles in recent years. In March, highly-touted running back prospect Derrius Guice said that one team asked to know whether he was attracted to men in a pre-draft interview, apparently just to gauge his reaction. That specific team has yet to be named. Two years prior, New York Giants defensive back Eli Apple revealed that a member of the Atlanta Falcons' coaching staff had asked him a similar questions about his sexual orientation.

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For Knox's part, his credentials are clear. He started all 37 games for the Wildcats in his freshman campaign, averaging 15.6 points, 5.4 rebounds, and 1.4 assists a night. A non-existent child should have little bearing on his ability to transition from the collegiate to the professional level.