Greatest College Basketball Players That Never Made It In The Nba

This is a program that has seen multiple all americans and a player of the year.

Greatest college basketball players that never made it in the nba. He was so skilled that the lakers even selected him in the nbas 1971 hardship draft. He has unofficially scored 49737 career points tops in history. Some basketball icons never played in the nba but the legend of their greatness remains strong. Legend at the college level an afterthought around nba players.

In his first season he averaged. He also played a portion of his career in italy and spain. Despite never playing high school or college ball joe the destroyer hammond was perhaps the greatest basketball player to ever come out of harlem. He also didnt live up to expectations in the nba.

Guard david thompson was one of the greatest college basketball players in history as well as in the nba despite having a short professional career. The reasons they didnt play in the association are wide ranging. However while winning a championship is the obvious goal for all players basketball is a team sport after all and there are many nba legends to never hoist the larry obrien trophy. The 69 schmidt is considered by many to be the best basketball player to never play in the nba.

The third ranked player korleone young played 3 nba games. Reynolds went undrafted though and never made it in the nba playing in the g league before bouncing around various countries to play international hoops. The top three ranked players in the class of 1998 all jumped straight from high school to the nba. The top two ranked al harrington and rashard lewis combined to play 32 nba seasons and appear in over 2000 games.

Scottie reynolds is one of the most talented nova players to come through the program over the last 10 seasons. Coattail riding is the only way hell achieve professional basketball success. A member of the basketball hall of fame thompson played three seasons at north carolina state from 1973 1975 with averages of 268 points and 81 rebounds per game. Oscar schmidt was simply the greatest brazilian basketball player ever.

Christian laettner wasnt just good in college he was one of the best players in college history. College basketball had never seen a player who could dominate across the board the way robertson did when he arrived in 1957 58.