LAS VEGAS — Every year, dozens of college basketball players forgo a year, if not multiple years, of NCAA eligibility in order to try to make their dream of playing in the NBA become a reality.
The chance to make a living as a professional basketball player in the world’s premier basketball league is not easy to pass up on.
And for some players, the decision to leave college early to jump into the NBA immediately pays dividends. Former Arizona Wildcats Stanley Johnson and Aaron Gordon, for example, left college after one season and wound up being taken in the first round of the NBA Draft.