Following his senior year at Ole Miss, Stroud was the top choice of the Houston Rockets in the 1980 NBA draft. He played with the Rockets from 1980-1981 and was a member of the 1981 team that lost to the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. Stroud played the 1982-83 season in Europe with Caja de Ronda, located in Malaga, Spain.
