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Moses Malone was the first to play professionally directly out of high school in 1974, though with an ABA team before the merger of that association with the NBA. Two high school players, Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby, applied for hardship and were declared eligible for the 1975 draft. [12]
This page lists the NBA players who were taken directly out of U.S. high schools, without having either enrolled in a U.S. college or university, played in a foreign professional league, or commit to a secondary league like the NBA Development League before being drafted.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 5 February 2025. LeBron James, a high school draftee, was one of the most anticipated first overall draft picks. The first overall pick in the National Basketball Association (NBA) is the player who is selected first among all eligible draftees by a team during the league's annual draft. The first pick ...
He is coming off a season in which he led the NBA in steals (1.9 per game) and earned second-team All-Defense honors. He also averaged 16.8 points per game, including 38.7% 3-point accuracy.
Thon Maker, the 7-foot Sudanese basketball phenom trying to jump straight from high school to the NBA, has officially been cleared for the 2016 NBA Draft.
Cooper is now the early favorite as the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NBA Draft with scouts already making him a priority the past two years. At 16 years old, with his birthday being Dec. 21, he will ...
In the third annual High School Hoops magazine, [40] the players weighed in on the subject of the new rules regarding draft eligibility. Many of them felt that it was unfair. Kansas State freshman Bill Walker, said (as a junior in high school), "I'm against it. I don't see why you have to be 19 to play a game of basketball when you can be 18 ...
Not many high school players went directly to the NBA draft for almost 20 years after Darryl Dawkins in 1975 because of the exposure of the college games. In the early years of the draft, teams would select players until they ran out of prospects. The 1960 and 1968 drafts went as long as 21 rounds.