Moses Malone played at Louisiana Tech. He did not go straight to the NBA. Spencer Haywood did. I believe he was the first to do it. If you want to stop this let kids who think they’re good enough go directly from HS to the NBA. Problem solved. Of course the NBA doesn’t want that. They like the system just the way it is. It allows them the luxury of not running a minor league program, and let’s the college weed out the pretenders.
For the 201718 season, the league rebranded to become the NBA G League as part of a multi-year partnership with Gatorade.
Karl Malone went to LA TECH. Moses went directly from Petersburg (Virginia) High School to the the NBA. Same high school as KU's Frank Mason.
Top pros who went directly from HS to the NBA:
Kobe Bryant
Lebron James
Moses Malone
Kevin Garnett
Dwight Howard
Tracy McGrady
Shawn Kemp
Amare Stoudemire
Monta Ellis
Darryl Dawkins