NEWARK, N.J. — Best in the country and No. 1 and 2 in the NBA draft. The celebration goes on for Kentucky's kids.

The Wildcats became the first school to have the top two picks, half of the four Kentucky players taken in the first round Thursday night.

After the New Orleans Hornets made the long-expected selection of forward Anthony Davis with the first pick, Charlotte followed by taking fellow freshman Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

"It's crazy," Davis said. "Michael is a great player. We have two down and four more to go. Hopefully all of them will go in the first round."

They didn't, the only disappointment for the Wildcats. They settled for four in the first round and a tie with North Carolina, which won the race to four picks, putting all of theirs in the top 17 selections.

Harrison Barnes (No. 7, Golden State), Kendall Marshall (No. 13, Phoenix), John Henson (No. 14, Milwaukee) and Tyler Zeller (No. 17, Dallas) all went between Kidd-Gilchrist and the next Kentucky player, Terrence Jones at No. 18 to Houston.

Zeller's rights were later traded to Cleveland for a package that included No. 24 pick Jared Cunningham of Oregon State.

Kentucky got its fourth first-round pick at No. 29 with Marquis Teague, another freshman, who is headed to Chicago as a possible replacement for the injured Derrick Rose.

It's been a long time since a school made such an impact at the top of the draft. UCLA had the Nos. 1 and 3 picks in 1969, when Milwaukee took Kareem Abdul-Jabbar — then Lew Alcindor — first and Lucius Allen went third to the Seattle SuperSonics.

Notes

• Lamar Odom may be headed back to Los Angeles for a second chance with the Clippers and Mo Williams will be reunited with the Utah Jazz in a three-team deal between the Dallas Mavericks, Clippers and Jazz. The deal is contingent on Williams exercising his $8.5 million player option for next season, which may happen on Friday.

• The New Orleans Hornets made a qualifying offer to Eric Gordon, formally making the prolific shooting guard a restricted free agent. Also getting qualifying offers were Suns center Robin Lopez, Suns guard Aaron Brooks from Franklin High School and Magic forward Ryan Anderson.

• Golden State Warriors coach Mark Jackson said he and his family were the targets of an extortion attempt related to an extramarital affair he had six years ago. A 28-year-old former stripper, Alexis Adams, and an alleged co-conspirator, Marcus Shaw, 40, were named in felony criminal complaints filed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland.