How many NBA players Drafted out of high school?

The NBA permitted what was known as “prep to professionals” up until 2005. These were high school students who decided not to attend college at all and ended up being picked in the NBA Draft. These students did just that from 1963 through 2005. Some of them you might not have heard of, while many of them are well-known names. You may see them here. There have been a total of 44 players who were drafted into the NBA after high school and the list is mentioned below:

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  1. Detroit Eastern High School, Reggie Harding, Detroit, Michigan (1962, drafted a second time in 1963)
  2. Petersburg High School, Petersburg, Virginia; Moses Malone (1974, made his NBA debut in 1976)
  3. Darryl Dawkins, a student at Orlando, Florida’s Maynard Evans High School (1975)
  4. Bill Willoughby, Englewood, New Jersey’s Dwight Morrow High School (1976)
  5. Shawn Kemp, Elkhart, Indiana’s Concord High School (1989, attended Trinity Valley Community College and the University of Kentucky but did not play college basketball. was dismissed from the University of Kentucky men’s basketball team for pawning jewelry belonging to a teammate.)
  6. Kevin Garnett, Chicago, Illinois’s Farragut Career Academy (1995)
  7. Lower Merion High School, Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania; Kobe Bryant (1996)
  8. Eau Claire High School, Columbia, South Carolina’s Jermaine O’Neal (1996)
  9. Tracy McGrady, Durham, North Carolina’s Mt. Zion Christian Academy (1997)
  10. Stephen Jackson, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia; Oak Hill Academy (2000, attended Butler Community College but did not play college basketball)
  11. Al Harrington, Elizabeth, New Jersey’s St. Patrick High School (1998)
  12. Rashard Lewis from Houston’s Alief Elsik High School (1998)
  13. Korleone Young, Chatham, Virginia’s Hargrave Military Academy (1998)
  14. Picayune Memorial High School, Picayune, Mississippi’s Jonathan Bender (1999)
  15. Leon Smith, from Chicago’s Martin Luther King High School (2001)
  16. East St. Louis High School student Darius Miles, East St. Louis, Illinois (2000)
  17. DeShawn Stevenson from Fresno, California’s Washington Union High School (2000)
  18. Glynn Academy in Brunswick, Georgia’s Kwame Brown (2001)
  19. California’s Dominguez High School and Tyson Chandler (2001)
  20. Thornwood High School student Eddy Curry from South Holland, Illinois (2001)
  21. DeSagana Diop, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy (2001)
  22. Ousmane Cisse, Montgomery, Alabama’s Saint Jude Montgomery High School (yet to appear in an NBA game)
  23. Cypress Creek High School, Orlando, Florida’s Amare Stoudemire (2002)
  24. St. Vincent-St. Mary High School, Akron, Ohio; LeBron James (2003)
  25. Starkville High School, Starkville, Mississippi’s Travis Outlaw (2003)
  26. Houston, Texas’s Ndudi Ebi attends Westbury Christian School (2003)
  27. Kendrick Perkins from Beaumont, Texas’s Clifton J. Ozen High School (2003)
  28. James Lang from Birmingham, Alabama’s Central Park Christian High School (2006)
  29. Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy, Dwight Howard, Atlanta, Georgia (2004)
  30. Peoria Central High School, Shaun Livingston, Peoria, Illinois (2004)
  31. California’s Bakersfield High School’s Robert Swift (2004)
  32. Sebastian Telfair, Brooklyn, New York’s Abraham Lincoln High School (2004)
  33. Prentiss High School in Prentiss, Mississippi, Al Jefferson (2004)
  34. Josh Smith, Mouth of Wilson, Virginia’s Oak Hill Academy (2004)
  35. Saint Benedict’s Preparatory School, Newark, New Jersey, J.R. Smith (2004)
  36. Leuzinger High School in Lawndale, California, Dorell Wright (2004)
  37. Seattle Preparatory School, Martell Webster, Seattle, Washington (2005)
  38. St. Joseph High School in Metuchen, New Jersey’s Andrew Bynum (2005)
  39. Houston, Texas’s Gulf Shores Academy’s Gerald Green (2006)
  40. C.J. Miles, Dallas, Texas’s Skyline High School (2005)
  41. Jackson, Mississippi’s Lanier High School’s Monta Ellis (2005)
  42. Georgia’s South Gwinnett High School’s Louis Williams (2005)
  43. Andray Blatche, a student at the South Kent Preparatory School in Connecticut (2005)
  44. Westchester High School student Amir Johnson is from Los Angeles, California (2005)

 

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