The first basketball players to be drafted into the NBA straight out of high school and begin playing immediately were Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby, both of whom were selected in the 1975 draft. (An earlier player, Reggie Harding, was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in 1962 after choosing not to attend college, but his eligibility was challenged, and he had to be drafted again, in 1963. For unrelated disciplinary reasons, he did not play in an NBA game until 1964.)
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