May 15, 2021
5 min read
In honor of Kobe and KG: ranking the NBA high school draftees
Were they wrong to skip college?
On Saturday (May 15 2021) Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, and Kobe Bryant, among others, will be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Each of them stand out from typical NBA Hall-of-Famers. Duncan was rare in the modern era for playing all four years of college (and graduating) before entering the NBA draft in 1997. Garnett (1995) and Bryant (1996) were pioneers in the opposite direction: they went straight from high school to…
