In the 60's, Dave DeBusschere played for the Chicago White Sox and the Detroit Pistons. He played 4 years with the Sox organization before he was named player-coach for the Pistons. At 24, DeBusschere was the youngest coach ever in the NBA, and it is also speculated that Fred Zollner gave him that job to lure him away from baseball for sure. Also during this time, John Havlicek was drafted in the 7th round of the NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns, while he was also drafted by Boston Celtics. Hondo played in several exhibition games before being cut by the Browns. In more recent term, although he's not as great DeBusschere or Havlicek, Rusty LaRue was a 4 year lettermen in football, basketball and baseball at Wake Forest. He set records for his passing in ACC on the football team, but chose basketball and got a championship ring and alot of 10-day contracts. Also, Scott Burrell was mentioned earlier, I think I also read that he is the only person ever to be picked in the first round in two of the four major sports (basketball and baseball).
yall are forgettin about LeBron.. he coulda easily played WR for any D1 school in the nation he decided to concentrate on basketball after his junior year i believe (dont quote me) had scouts comin to his games and everything
Jay Triano played football and got drafted the same time he got draft by the clippers, but chose the clipper's instead he was canadian too, he went to Simon Fraser, BC. Tim Duncan swam till he was in grade 8 then turned over a new leaf and played bball because he found out he was really good at it.
