{"id":71150,"date":"2017-02-05T08:48:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-05T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=71150"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:52:34","modified_gmt":"2024-03-05T23:52:34","slug":"nba-players-played-football-nfl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/nba-players-played-football-nfl\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Players Who Probably Could Have Played In The NFL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a Nike Inspiration event in Houston, TX. While listening to NFL great Andre Ware, star David Johnson and motivational speaker ET The Hip-Hop Preacher speak to a room full of top high school football players about hard work and what it takes to reach their full potential, I started thinking about how many of the best players in a sport could have become elite players in other sports if they would have dedicated themselves to that other sport. I then started thinking about a bunch of current and former NBA players who were also gridiron stars during their prep days and probably could have been a player in the NFL.<\/p>\n<h3>LEBRON JAMES<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SvmALPg9Cmk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Back in high school, the two-time All-Ohio selection\u00a0was a highly recruited football star\u00a0who supposedly considered playing for the University of Miami, Michigan and Ohio State before making the decision to take his talents to the NBA. The Cavs, Heat and Nike couldn't have been happier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lebron_Fullscreen-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-71151\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Lebron_Fullscreen-1.jpg\" alt=\"Lebron_Fullscreen-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>CHARLIE WARD<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r1VTnrl645E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>(check out The Rock at the 18-second mark)<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Ward wasn't just a good football player before he put on sneakers and a Knicks jersey in 1994, he was a quarterback for an NCAA championship-winning FSU squad and a Heisman Trophy Award winner.<\/p>\n<p>While we are on FSU players. \u00a0I had the pleasure of playing in a pick-up game with a red-shirt freshman Randy Moss after his high school days of catching oops from Jason Williams and before he was catching touchdown passes in the NFL.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-qJyniyHBj4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h3>ALLEN IVERSON<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eR63ro37k9M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Like FSU, Bethel high\u00a0school wasn\u2019t sure if they had a future NFL quarterback or future NBA point guard in Allen Iverson. As the star QB and defensive back, he led the football team to a state championship his junior year and accumulated 21 touchdowns (14 passing), 2,204 yards of offense and 13 interceptions.<\/p>\n<p>Just three months after winning a football state championship, he would lead Bethel to a state basketball championship.<\/p>\n<h3>NATE ROBINSON<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UyL63DFkaRc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Nate was a star football player in high school and also played football at the University of Washington. Over the past few years, he\u2019s also dropped hints here and there about trying out for the NFL. And back in 2011,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/chicago\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/8902231\/nate-robinson-chicago-bulls-had-considered-trying-seattle-seahawks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nate and Seahawks coach Pete Carroll exchanged some flirty tweets<\/a>\u00a0to each other about the possibility of Nate trying out for the Seattle team.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>DARREL ARMSTRONG<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Q-Ut9f7YKSU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Armstrong was a high school football player and college walk-on at Fayetteville, who\u00a0twice kicked a school-record 48-yard field goal. \u00a0He seemed like a long-shot to make the NFL but the undrafted Orlando Magic favorite (most known for doing a layup in a dunk contest) was a long-shot to make the NBA too and he lasted 13 years in the NBA.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>JR SMITH<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ziLhbyQogS0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>During the last lockout, when most players were thinking about going overseas, Smith, who did play overseas, joked that he was going to go to college and play football at the University of Miami. Besides being a star wide receiver on his high school football team, Earl\u00a0also had one of the greatest high school yearbook photos ever.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/j.r.-smith-high-school.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"408\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><strong>MATT BARNES<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xjQFYADdbec\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Barnes, an All-American football player in high school, actually received multiple tryouts invites from NFL teams\u00a0but decided to go the NBA route. You can catch him playing football in his annual Celebs vs Cancer Football games in the summer.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>GLEN DAVIS\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BggdtvqKHyI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Big Baby played defensive end, defensive tackle and tailback at University Laboratory High in Baton Rouge but chose to play basketball at LSU rather than football. I'm grateful for this decision because if he would have gone the football route then we would have never had this great moment with Nate Robinson.<\/p>\n<h3>PAT RILEY<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/md3rFQeCkAE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The casual basketball fan probably doesn't know one of the greatest coaches of all-time was also a pretty decent basketball player in the NBA. Most die-hard NBA fanatics probably doesn't know Pat Riley was drafted by the Dallas Cowboys. It was the 11th round but the Kentucky wide-receiver can still say he was drafted by an NBA and NFL team.<\/p>\n<h3>BEN WALLACE<\/h3>\n<p>Without even knowing he played football in high school, all you have to do is glance at the 4 x NBA Defensive Player Of The Year to assume Ben Wallace could have been a star in the NFL. What's shocking is Wallace turned down a scholarship to play football at Auburn to play basketball at a community college! \u00a0Well, it paid off for the NBA champ in the long run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/566049-ben_wallace.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87691\" src=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/566049-ben_wallace.jpg\" alt=\"566049-ben_wallace\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>KEVIN DURANT<\/h3>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IOIa20l6SXo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The Washington Redskins fan didn't play football in High School or College but he's a football fanatic that loves a good game of flag football and with his size and skill, I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt. I'm joking, I just wanted to share this KD vid.<\/p>\n<h3>MICHAEL JORDAN<\/h3>\n<p>The story of the GOAT getting cut from the Varsity high school basketball team is legendary (the truth is he was just a 5'10\" sophomore and was named to the JV team) but what many don't know is he was also on the baseball, track and football team at Laney High.<\/p>\n<p>He did end up playing a little pro baseball when he was \"retired (suspended?)\" in the mid-90s and I'm pretty sure if he would have dedicated himself to football instead of trying to be the next David Thompson, he would have ended up in the NFL.<\/p>\n<div class=\"omc-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width:100%; height: 100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8Wsd8ESIe3M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen width=\"600\" height=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">(1994) Michael Jordan throwing a football on the field before a baseball game! Legendary. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/avMpIaz1OT\">pic.twitter.com\/avMpIaz1OT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Timeless Sports (@timelesssports_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/timelesssports_\/status\/948413643032547328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/multimedia\/photo_gallery\/1101\/nba-players-with-football-ties\/content.16.html#ixzz2sCApJc2f\">Sportsillustrated.cnn.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a Nike Inspiration event in Houston, TX. 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