No. 5: Roscoe Pondexter – forward – Long Beach State
Father of Quincy and brother of Cliff, the Pondexter family can ball, Roscoe being no exception. Pondexter instead chose to play in the American Basketball Association after being selected by the Celtics in the 1974 NBA Draft.
He’d play in that league until it went under, then on to Europe and South America. After his playing career ended, he became a prison guard, and years later, would help expose some of the worst abuses going on in U.S. prisons.