One-and-done: Highlights of the NBA's new era

In the summer of 2005, the NBA introduced a new rule requiring that high school prospects be one year removed from high school before they're eligible for the NBA Draft. Beginning with the high school class of 2006, the new rule ushered in the one-and-done era of college basketball.

This June’s NBA Draft will be the 10th of the one-and-done era, and to date 81 players have been selected in the draft a year after they’ve finished playing high school ball. With as many as 14 freshmen projected to be selected this year, we take a look back at the highs and lows of the one-and-one era.

The best pick of the one-and-done era remains Kevin Durant. A member of the first class of high school players impacted by the rule, Durant has set the bar pretty high with both his college and professional performance.

During his lone season at Texas, Durant was the Big 12 and National Player of the Year while putting up 25.8 points and 11.1 rebounds per game. After going No. 2 in the 2007 Draft - after the injury riddled Greg Oden – all he’s done is develop into one of the NBA’s top five players. His combination of athletic and basketball gifts has seen people try to imitate but not yet duplicate.

Since Durant won the NBA Rookie of the Year award in 2007-08, Derrick Rose – who has also been the MVP of the NBA – Tyreke Evans, Kyrie Irving, Andrew Wiggins and Karl-Anthony Towns have followed in his footsteps as one-and-done players to win the Rookie of the Year ward and experience immediate success in the NBA.

To date, a total of 12 0ne-and-done players, including Anthony Davis, Kevin Love, Kyrie Irving and Andre Drummond, have been selected to play in an NBA All-Star game.

Because of multiple injuries that ruined a once-promising career, Greg Oden gets a pass on the list of one-and-done players that didn't meet lofty expectations. Instead, former Rivals150 No. 1 prospect Josh Selby and 2013’s No. 1 pick Anthony Bennett stand out as those who have yet to back up the hype.

It’s a tough call to pick the roughest go between a former No. 1 high schooler and No. 1 pick that are both currently out of the NBA. Bennett played just 128 games and has already been through three teams -- his last was Toronto, which released him during the 2015-16 season -- after being picked No. 1 overall by Cleveland in 2013. That earns him the 'honor'. On the bright side, Bennett has made almost $12 million dollars, is still only 23 years old and has plenty of time to make a comeback. The same does not appear to be the case for Selby, who scored just 83 points in 38 career games after getting drafted No. 49 overall in 2011.

Others that have had short NBA runs -- thus far -- because of either lack of performance or off-the-court issues include Javaris Crittenton, Daequon Cook, Donte Greene, Latavious Williams, Ricardo Ledo, Daniel Orton, Quincy Miller, Grant Jerrett and Marquis Teague.

A big-time high school prospect who ranked in the top 10 of one of the most loaded classes in the last 15 years (2007), DeAndre Jordan nonetheless had his skeptics in NBA front offices.

After averaging around eight points and six rebounds a game during his one season at Texas A&M, he was considered by most NBA GM’s to be too immature and offensively deficient to merit selection in the first round. Jordan has been laughing his way to the bank -- thanks a four-year, $88 million extension he signed in 2015 -- ever since falling to No. 35 in the 2008 draft while leading the league in rebounds twice, twice making the All-Defensive First Team and even earning First Team All-NBA in 2016.

Right on Jordan’s heels is Hassan Whiteside. The No. 87 ranked player in the high school class of 2009, Whiteside went No. 33 overall in 2010 and after bouncing around for a few years he’s found a home in Miami, where he led the NBA in blocked shots during the 2015-16 season.

Under John Calipari, Kentucky has produced an astounding 16 one-and-done players. If you include Tyreke Evans and Derrick Rose, who played for Calipari while he was still at Memphis, he has coached 22.2 percent of the players to be drafted as one-and-dones.

Along with Rose, who was a league MVP, Calipari coached arguably the three best young big men in the game in Anthony Davis, DeMarcus Cousins and Karl-Anthony Towns plus All-Star point guard John Wall, a former Rivals.com No. 1 overall player.

Since the 2006 high school class, Duke has produced six and Kansas five one-and-done players.

Save for 2009, when Tyreke Evans “slid” all the way to No. 4, a one-and-done player has been the first pick in every draft. That trend should continue this year when either Ben Simmons or Brandon Ingram gets selected in the top spot.

The high school class of 2014 was looked at as a good, but not great, class, but to date it has produced the most one-and-one players. Fourteen players from that class went in the first round of the 2015 Draft. The fewest one-and-done players produced by a high school class thus far are the classes of 2010 and 2008, which were both responsible for five players.

An overwhelming majority of one-and-done picks have occurred in the first round. Of the 81 selected after one year, only eight were picked in the second round. Outside of the previously mentioned DeAndre Jordan and Hassan Whiteside, Lance Stephenson is the only other second-round one-and-done pick who has had an NBA career of note.

Finally, only five one-and-done draft picks were not rated as five-star prospects coming out of high school. Of those five, Alex Len was never evaluated before making his way to Maryland from overseas. Hassan Whiteside was the lowest ranked four-star at No. 87, while Zach Lavine (No. 44), Maurice Harkless (No. 41) and Devon Booker (No. 29) were all within shouting distance of five-star status.