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College Basketball Stars Who Flopped In NBA

Some NCAA Players Struggled As Pros

Not every great college basketball player is going to make it as a pro, but some just have further to fall than others.

Some players who were legends on the college court, just couldn't seem to translate that success in the NBA. In other words, they were flops.

It's subjective, this thing we call an NBA flop. But, really, it all boils down to one thing: expectations. This is the ruler by which all athletes are judged, regardless of whether they're professionals or amateurs.

In this article, we aren't going to focus on simple NBA underachievers, those players who didn't live up to their expectations coming out of college, but still had respectable NBA careers, like Danny Manning or Danny Ferry.

Instead, let's look at five flops: NCAA superstars who not only didn't live up to expectations, but also wreaked havoc on the teams that drafted them.

College Star/NBA Flop No. 5: Dream Team Scrub >>

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