NBA Stars Who Weren't Highly Recruited Out Of High School

While they may be famous today, not every NBA star was a big time recruit in high school. Some of your favorite NBA players were once afterthoughts to make the league, but now have college coaches and programs kicking themselves for having missed them in the recruiting process.

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NBA Stars Who Weren't Highly Recruited Out Of High School

[nonstop]

We made a mistake and said Steph was drafted #9, when he was actually drafted #7.

Sorry Steph!

[johnfinch]

Ja is a beast that one lay up he had last year man one of the most prettiest finshes I've ever seen

[farandbeyond]

Makes you wonder how many other Ja Morant like Talents are/were out there that simply never got discovered.

[_asad]

Curry and Dame two of the best pg of the decade hands down ✊🏽

[Joypyf]

Saw Fred VanVleet play in high school, and I knew then he was something special ❤️🖤💜

[ultrustic]

For Damian Lillard's case, he kept transferring to different schools. He was 5"5" in his freshman year that grew to 5"11ft tall. Going to 3 different HS before his important summer season before senior year hurts his recruitment as he kept bouncing to different school because of lacking of playing time and because of the high cost of a private school in his Soph year that he transferred to a big class sized public school. If he had gone to a better "basketball school" in the Alameda / Oakland area, he might get more notice. Who knows? If he had grown more taller before his senior year, maybe more offers would come his way. He wound up growing three more inches to his 6 "2" listed height.

[qiaoenyim]

Did I just heard him say Steph was drafted 9th overall

[thebestcentaur]

..."he may be the only reason why you've even heard of Weber State"

He's right, you know

[michaelfarrow]

There's a theme running through a few of these which is that they had to develop a game before they had physically developed. By the time they grew or filled out, they had developed an all-round game that didn't rely on height or strength.

[eliturner]

You should really consider doing audio books

[sebsanchez]

I think steph was drafted 7th overall not 9th

[djayytxybl]

When curry retire I'm gonna cry because he's been one of my favorites for a while now

[memesodamnshit]

Lebron James? He was so bad he didn’t even play in college

[gerryomo]

This is why you should never give up if you got hoop dreams. That Ja story is crazy!!!

[MRC-SHIMOHAI]

8:58

Shaq and Kenny smith: THE SUPERMAN IS IN THE BUILDING

[emiliogarriz]

A video about nba players that were waived in college with be awesome

[ccsballazdre]

Steph Curry almost beat Kansas in the E8, to take them to the F4. That guy was amazing to watch in college.

[mightymouse]

please do how good Brandon Roy actually was

[basketballaddict]

It’s interesting that they are all point guards

[rdblk]

I heard of Weber State way before Lillard. They were the 14th seeded team who upset the North Carolina Tarheels, a 3rd seeded team in the 1999 NCAA tournament