I'm afraid that this may fuel the rumor that one of the JUCO's is considering a one and done season but that is not my intention. I was just curious about how many NBA players had gone through the JUCO/Prep School route to the NBA and I found this list of HS and JUCO NBA players:
http://www.nba.com/draft2007/hsjc.html (http://www.nba.com/draft2007/hsjc.html)
There are quite a few who went directly from prep school but I remember that Steve Francis was at a JUCO (two actually) before going to Maryland for a year then to the draft. Im just curious how often this actually happens. Does anyone know who else has taken that route (Prep/Juco to Mid/high Major to Draft) or know of a resource to find that out?
Thanks
http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi
Has a link to all NBA players and the colleges they came from (before entering the NBA).
At a glance, here are the JUCOs listed:
Barton County CC -Alexsander Radjievoic (sp)
Butler County CC - Stephen Jackso n
City College of San Francisco - Bill Calhoun
Hawthorne Junior College - Hawthorne Wingo
Indian Hills Community College - Ernest Brown
Northeast Miss Community College - Qyntel Woods
There are many others.
Also, there may be "Colleges" which may not be 4-year institutions, but 2-year ones.
Carl Landry-vincinnies-purdue-nba
Latrell Sprewell - Three Rivers JC - Alabama - Golden State
Lloyd Walton and Jerome Whitehead
Quote from: 77ncaachamps on April 28, 2009, 06:23:17 PM
http://www.basketball-reference.com/friv/colleges.cgi
Has a link to all NBA players and the colleges they came from (before entering the NBA).
At a glance, here are the JUCOs listed:
Barton County CC -Alexsander Radjievoic (sp)
Butler County CC - Stephen Jackso n
City College of San Francisco - Bill Calhoun
Hawthorne Junior College - Hawthorne Wingo
Indian Hills Community College - Ernest Brown
Northeast Miss Community College - Qyntel Woods
There are many others.
Also, there may be "Colleges" which may not be 4-year institutions, but 2-year ones.
Not really an impressive list. Then again, the two best players in the NBA, LeBron and Kobe didn't go to college at all.
Quote from: Avenue Commons on May 01, 2009, 10:13:05 AM
Not really an impressive list. Then again, the two best players in the NBA, LeBron and Kobe didn't go to college at all.
There are more Jucos that transferred to 4 year schools that got drafted. Straight from Juco to NBA though, agreed, not that impressive