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In the early years of the NBA draft, a player had to finish his four-year college eligibility to be eligible for selection. Reggie Harding, who had graduated from high school but did not enroll in a college, became the first player drafted out of high school when the Detroit Pistons selected him in the fourth round of the 1962 draft. [3]
At a time when "combined final game scores often finished well above 200 points", [3] she repeatedly scored over 100 points in a single high school game. [2] [1] In one game, Rife recalled, a forward ended up guarding her because all of the guards on the opposition's team had fouled out trying to keep her from scoring. [1]
Lusia Mae Harris was born in Minter City, Mississippi, [2] to Ethel Harris and Willie Harris, a sharecropper in the cotton fields. She was the fourth of five daughters and the tenth of eleven children, all of whom attended Amanda Elzy High School near Greenwood, Mississippi. [3]
NBA history is littered with draft busts — players who were taken high in the draft and never lived up to the hype.
Rookie Wire took a look at the biggest draft busts for every team in the NBA over the years.
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On January 31, 1995, she attended a ceremony in the gym of her high school, Sonora High School, in La Habra, California, where her player jersey was officially retired, and hung in display [23] She was inducted into the National High School Hall of Fame in 1995. In 1999, Meyers received the Mel Greenberg Media Award, presented by the WBCA. [24]
NBA lottery picks often considered saviors on draft day are prone to vicious reversals of fortune by their second season in the league. Koncak went ahead of Karl Malone and Charles Oakley, bona ...