With the signing of Rajon Rondo, the New Orleans Pelicans are set to have four former Kentucky players on their roster next season. The Phoenix Suns aren’t impressed, though — they’re going on their third season in a row with four.

Meanwhile, the Sacramento Kings drafted De’Aaron Fox to be their third. The Charlotte Hornets and Washington Wizards (and Oklahoma City Thunder, if Enes Kanter counts) already have two Big Blue alumni on their roster, and there still are a few former Wildcats searching for their next team. By the start of the 2017-18 season, expect at least 25 and possibly close to 30 University of Kentucky products on NBA rosters — including four of the 20 best players in the NBA.

John Calipari has a 249–53 record since taking over and turning the Wildcats into a premier launching pad into the NBA. So the question is, how good would an all-Kentucky team actually be?

The all-Kentucky depth chart

PG: John Wall / Rajon Rondo / Brandon Knight

SG: Eric Bledsoe / Devin Booker / Jamal Murray

SF: Anthony Davis / Michael Kidd-Gilchrist / Terrence Jones

PF: DeMarcus Cousins / Patrick Patterson / Julius Randle

C: Karl-Anthony Towns / Nerlens Noel / Willie Cauley-Stein Coach: Dwane Casey

The first thing you’ll notice is that the starting shooting guard is actually a point guard and the starting small forward is actually a power forward. Bledsoe played a ton next to Wall as teammates in Lexington, and he’s probably a better player right now than Phoenix Suns teammate Booker, whose potential is phenomenal.

Davis starting at the 3 is an indictment of a weird pattern in the Calipari era: a glaring lack of successful NBA wings. Darius Miller and DeAndre Liggins are in the NBA but not exactly worthy of spots here, while James Young and Aaron Harrison are among those looking for teams after not finding much success on their rookie contracts. Jones and Trey Lyles could both slide up to the three, but they’re really fours who haven’t been consistent in the NBA anyway.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist is the only actual small forward to come from a Calipari-coached team who has proven his NBA value — ever. The closest Calipari came at Massachusetts or Memphis was Rodney Carney, who played 299 games but was out of the league after five seasons despite being the No. 16 pick of the 2006 NBA Draft.

OK, but how good are they?

Davis is an incredibly versatile player with fluid athleticism, and Cousins and Towns are excellent shooters who help ensure that the team won’t lack spacing. The size of the lineup also could be an asset if the dual point guards can control the pace properly — while still maximizing their superhuman fast-break capabilities. This is a very talented team.

But it’s not beating the Golden State Warriors. The chemistry would be wonky in any version of this lineup — even playing straight up with Wall, Booker, Kidd-Gilchrist, Davis and Towns or using the 2010 lineup of Wall, Bledsoe, Liggins/Miller, Patterson and Cousins — and the shooting and defense would leave a lot to be desired against the Warriors’ elite combination of those.

What about the Cleveland Cavaliers or San Antonio Spurs or the rebuilt Houston Rockets or Oklahoma City Thunder? Against those teams, the Kentucky squad would have a clear-cut talent advantage. The Cavs and Spurs seem to be able to get away with just about anything thanks to their remarkable superstar small forwards, but perhaps Davis’ size and Kidd-Gilchrist’s defensive prowess could bother LeBron James and Kawhi Leonard.

How would they have to play?

The Kentucky team certainly would own the paint on both ends. Pairing Noel or Cauley-Stein with Cousins and Towns would help with defensive issues, if any arose. But a lot of this team’s maximum upside would have to do with Davis. He’s the clear-cut best Wildcat alumnus at the moment, a legitimate top-eight NBA player who arguably deserves a slot in the top five. If he can hit his 3s and help create offensive movement, this team absolutely could be the second-best team in the NBA.

That’s what the Pelicans are counting on from Davis, as well. Their roster is obviously flawed — in similar ways to this Kentucky team, given their lack of wing talent. There are real questions about how Cousins will fit with Davis when given a full-season’s chance to handle the role. Cousins, for all his talent, probably isn’t going to be the one to change his game dramatically. But Davis has worked on 3-point shooting and now must show that he fits the modern stretch-four role and asking him to move out of the center slot wasn’t a mistake.

This Kentucky alignment (again, if you want to start Kidd-Gilchrist and have Cousins or Towns coming off the bench, that makes sense, too) theoretically would push Davis to the perimeter even more.

So are they second-best?

My instinct is Davis makes this whole team work. He showed at Kentucky and on Team USA that when he has teammates of similar talent levels and great coaching, he will do whatever they need him to do. The combination of depth, size, talent and the often-forgotten youth factor would overwhelm the Cavaliers and Spurs, and they’d focus their efforts on making life as difficult as possible for James and Leonard.

The Thunder (if allowed to replace Patterson and Enes Kanter with similar, players) and Rockets don’t even have the established-chemistry advantage that the Cavs and Spurs hold, and they also are playing with much shallower benches.

The scary part is that the Kentucky group is only getting better. Only Rondo and Jodie Meeks are still in the NBA from the pre-Calipari days, and new faces enter every year. Fox, Malik Monk and Bam Adebayo were 2017 draft lottery picks, with five five-star recruits coming in.

Calipari may never return to the NBA after his ill-fated stint with the New Jersey Nets. But his imprint is all over the league.