Charles Barkley played high school basketball for Leeds High School in Leeds, Alabama, according to his TNT bio. He led Leeds to the state semifinals as a senior, and that is where Auburn ...

Charles Barkley said that of all the players who entered the NBA straight out of high school, only LeBron James entered the NBA ready for the big league. BasketballNetwork.net ...

Leeds High School’s Charles Barkley joined the Philadelphia 76ers from Auburn as the fifth choice in the 1984 draft. The draft is infamously remembered, at least in Portland, because the Trail Blazers ...

Charles Barkley urges college players not to rush going to the ... The rule was changed in 2006 when the NBA CBA required players to be at least 19 years old and one year removed from high school.

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — NBA legend Charles Barkley has made the first of 10 promised donations to a New Orleans school where two of its students made mathematical history last year. St. Mary’s ...

In 1974, Moses Malone became the first player to play in the NBA directly out of high school. Darryl Dawkins and Bill Willoughby followed in Big Mo's shoes one year later.