#9 Proviso East High School (Maywood, Ill.) – 12 Players
New York City is the only city to have released a higher number of NBA players than Chicago, Proviso East being one such team contributing to Chicago’s success. The amount of candidates alone fuels plenty of chances for potential sportspeople to surface, with Proviso achieving an acceptance of four-thousand individuals throughout the 1970s.
Proviso East High School
This is the era where Doc Rivers featured in the Proviso East Pirates, coaching a fellow graduate, Michael Finley. The double NBA All-Star Michael blessed Proviso East with a 1991 state championship, going on to perform for Rivers in the Boston Celtics almost twenty years after.
NBA Players Who Attended Proviso East (Years in League)
Donnie Boyce (2)
Jim Brewer (9)
Dee Brown (2)
Shannon Brown (9)
Sterling Brown (2)
Jevon Carter (1)
Michael Finley (15)
Sherell Ford (1)
Steven Hunter (8)
Reggie Jordan (6)
Jacob Pullen (1)
Doc Rivers (13)
#10 Thomas Jefferson High School (New York City, N.Y.) – 10 Players
Situated in Brooklyn, the formerly all-inclusive Jefferson High catered to the excellence of all students, without honing in on sportspeople.
Thomas Jefferson High School
Not many schools can claim to have molded an Emmy and Golden Globe winner called Jimmy Smits, Goldman Sachs chairperson Lloyd Blankfein, and Riddick Bowe the boxing heavyweight champion.
Switching to NBA fame, individuals like Max Zasflosky formed the ranks in the early days of the NBA, in its second season as a hoop-slamming titleholder, from 1947 to 1948.
Unfortunately, the school was closed in 2007 after eighty-five successful running years, because of plummeting graduation performances.
NBA Players Who Attended Thomas Jefferson (Years in League)
Harry Boykoff (2)
Leroy Ellis (14)
Jack Garfinkel (3)
Sidney Green (10)
Tony Jackson (2)
Jim McMillian (9)
Boris Nachamkin (1)
Phil Sellers (1)
Sid Tannenbaum (2)
Max Zaslofsky (10)
