He was never an All-Star. He never made an All-NBA team. Darryl “Chocolate Thunder” Dawkins, though, was a legend in his own right. Not only was he the first player to go straight from high school ...
Darryl Dawkins has the distinction of being the first player to go straight to the NBA from high school. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers with the fifth overall pick in the 1975 NBA Draft and ...