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Randolph Morris was the first player to go pro but then come back to college midseason

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James Nnaji is the talk of the basketball world right now and rightfully so. The 31st overall pick of the 2023 NBA Draft will be joining Baylor’s roster midway through the 2025-26 college basketball season, a sentence that would have blown the minds of anyone hearing it before the decimation of amateurism a few years ago. Actually, forget a few years ago. Dan Hurley called it “crazy s***” just the other day. But before going pro and coming back to college was cool, a former Kentucky player did it first. Let’s look back on the curious case of Randolph Morris.