The list of potential first round picks in the NFL draft opting out non-playoff post season games to prepare for the combine is growing, which is not a good sign for college football.

Now, there is a feeling the same idea could carry over into college basketball.

We’re already seen it happen in small doses. Mitchell Robinson, a 7-1 center who initially committed to Western Kentucky, do it last year when he opted to forgo college and prepare for the 2018 NBA draft. Robinson was selected in the second round by the Knicks. Forward Darius Bazley bailed on a scholarship at Syracuse this year to take a lucrative $1 million internship with New Balance and is projected as an early second round draft pick.   

And it only took one game after Duke freshman phenom Zion Williamson demoralized Kentucky in the Champions Classic for NBA Hall of Fame players Tracy McGrady and Scottie Pippen to push of idea of the 6-7, 280 pound forward sitting out the rest of the year rather than risk his status as the consensus No. 1 pick in the draft.

Pippen, speaking on ESPN’s “The Jump,” said, ‘I would shut it down. . . I would stop playing because I feel he could risk a major injury that could really hurt his career.’’

McGrady added, ‘Football players are doing it, why not? College football players are skipping bowl games and they’re getting ready for the combine.’’

With Williamson, who is averaging 21.2 points and .4 rebounds, it seems unlikely to happen because he loves to compete. But it may be just a matter of time before an elite Top 5 NBA prospect passes on freshman year to take the $125,000 salary the G-league is offering to select players.  

It’s strictly business.