[Stardust]

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/2...no+regrets

It wasn't the NBA draft night that most basketball players grow up dreaming of.

There was a gathering of family and friends and his parents' house in Norcross, Ga., a quiet night until the moment the Milwaukee Bucks made Meeks, the former University of Kentucky star, the 41st pick in last week's draft.

"It got pretty loud in the house," Meeks said in a phone interview this week. "People upstairs, people downstairs — everybody was screaming when they heard my name."

And that's pretty much where the fanfare stopped.

Meeks grabbed headlines throughout his junior season at Kentucky, averaging 23.7 points, torching Tennessee for a school-record 54 points in a game and grabbing All-Southeastern Conference honors.

His professional career has started with considerably less buzz.

Meeks has been working out in Milwaukee — where the Bucks consider him a steal, but where he's been overshadowed by first-round pick Brandon Jennings, a point guard who made waves last year by skipping college for a season in Europe.

Meeks has no agent and no contract, and when he begins play Friday in the Las Vegas Summer League it will be as a rookie with no guaranteed roster spot.

Meeks expects to make the team. The organization seems to expect it, too.