Master P
The rapper accepted a scholarship to play at the University of Houston, but dropped out after a few months of school. Still, he managed to get himself a tryout with the Hornets in 1998, participating in training camp. “I was the biggest star on that team. I should have made that team at Charlotte,” he later said of the experience, according to Complex. “My music got me cut from that team. It was politics. The GM, Bob Bass, called me in and said, ‘You can play. You are a helluva basketball player, but your music is pure filth and it’s a Bible Belt city.’ And they let me go. It wasn’t about basketball. I handled my business.” A year later, he played in the preseason as a member of the Raptors.