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A basketball player is a person who plays the game of basketball. This type is typically reserved for players at the profession and collegiate level, not recreational players.
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x Rasheed Wallace Rasheed Wallace 2 Power forward
Rasheed Abdul Wallace (born September 17, 1974) is a retired American professional basketball power forward and center who played from 1995 to 2010 in the National Basketball Association (NBA). A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he played...
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Center
Small forward
x Tayshaun Prince Drawing of Tayshaun Prince Small forward
Tayshaun Durell Prince (born February 28, 1980) is an American basketball player who plays for the Detroit Pistons in the National Basketball Association. Prince is a small forward, listed at 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) and 215 lb (98 kg; 15.4 st). A...
22 Detroit Pistons
Power forward
x Richard Hamilton RipHamilton Shooting guard
Richard "Rip" Hamilton (born February 14, 1978) is an American basketball shooting guard with the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Hamilton has played for the Washington Wizards and the Detroit Pistons. A three time All...
32 Chicago Bulls
Small forward
Point guard
Swingman
x Nazr Mohammed Nazr Mohammed Center
Nazr Tahiru Mohammed [NAW-zee] (born September 5, 1977) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. He plays the center position. He is 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and 250 lb (113.4 kg). He is aggressive in offensive...
8 Oklahoma City Thunder
x Chauncey Billups act chauncey billups.jpg Point guard
Chauncey Ray Billups (born September 25, 1976, in Denver, Colorado) is an American professional basketball guard for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A star at the University of Colorado, he was chosen third...
1 Los Angeles Clippers
x Ben Wallace 2004 Detroit Pistons congratulated by George Bush Power forward
Ben Camey Wallace (born September 10, 1974) is an American basketball center for the Detroit Pistons of the NBA. A native of Alabama, Wallace attended Cuyahoga Community College and Virginia Union University and signed with the Washington Bullets ...
6 Detroit Pistons
Center
x Chris Webber Chris Webber (left) and fan Power forward
Mayce Edward Christopher "Chris" Webber III (born March 1, 1973), nicknamed C-Webb, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is a five-time NBA All-Star, a former All-NBA First Teamer, a former NBA Rookie of the Year, and a former #1...
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Center
x Mark Madsen Power forward
Mark Ellsworth "Mad Dog" Madsen (born January 28, 1976) is an American assistant coach and former professional basketball player. Madsen played NCAA basketball at Stanford, where he finished his career ranked in the school's career top 10 in blocks...
   
x James Augustine   Power forward
James Augustine (born February 27, 1984) is an American professional basketball player. He was born in Midlothian, Illinois, but eventually moved to Mokena, Illinois where he attended Lincoln-Way Central High School in New Lenox, Illinois where he...
   
Center
x Jason Kapono   Shooting guard
Jason Alan Kapono (born February 4, 1981) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the second round of the...
   
Small forward
x Pete Maravich ppmm.jpg  
Peter "Pistol Pete" Press Maravich (June 22, 1947 – January 5, 1988) was an American professional basketball player. Born and raised in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, Maravich starred in college at Louisiana State University (LSU) and played for three...
   
x Carmelo Anthony Carmelo Small forward
Carmelo Kiyan Anthony (born May 29, 1984), nicknamed "Melo", is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the New York Knicks in the National Basketball Association (NBA). After a successful high school career at Towson...
7 New York Knicks
x Sebastian Telfair Telfair 08 Point guard
Sebastian Telfair (born June 9, 1985 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the Phoenix Suns of the NBA. Telfair was the 13th overall pick in the 2004 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers out of Abraham Lincoln...
31 Phoenix Suns
x Amare Stoudemire Power forward
Amar'e Carsares Stoudemire (pronunciation: /əˈmɑreɪ ˈstɒdəmaɪər/; born November 16, 1982) is an American professional basketball player who plays as a power forward and center for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association....
1 New York Knicks
Center
x Dino Rađa DinoRadjaPanathinaikos Power forward
Dino Rađa, transcribed in English as Dino Radja (born April 24, 1967, in Split, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia), is a retired Croatian basketball player. He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped in...
   
x Mamadou N'diaye   Center
Mamadou N'Diaye (born June 16, 1975) is a Senegalese professional basketball player. After a college career at Auburn University, in the United States, N'Diaye was drafted by the Denver Nuggets in the first round of the 2000 NBA Draft. He played for...
   
x Marquis Daniels Marquis Daniels cropped Shooting guard
Marquis Antwane Daniels (born January 7, 1981) is an American professional basketball guard-forward with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association. Daniels was an undrafted guard in the 2003 NBA Draft and has become a regular...
4 Boston Celtics
Small forward
x Damir Markota Markota Power forward
Damir Markota (born December 26, 1985) is a Croatian-Swedish professional basketball player at the forward position. He is 2.09 m (6 ft 10 ¼) tall and 118 kg (260 lbs) in weight. His style of play has been compared to that of Vladimir Radmanović. He...
   
x Chris Wilcox ChrisWilcox Power forward
Chris Ray Wilcox (born September 3, 1982) is an American professional basketball player. He has played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics, Oklahoma City Thunder, New York Knicks, Detroit...
44 Boston Celtics
Center
x Mikki Moore During a game versus the Raptors on February 14, 2007 Power forward
Clinton Renard "Mikki" (pronounced "MY-key") Moore (born November 4, 1975) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the NBA Born in Orangeburg, South Carolina, Moore graduated from Blacksburg High School at...
31 Golden State Warriors
Center
x Josh Smith Smith with the Hawks in 2008 Power forward
Josh Smith (born December 5, 1985 in College Park, Georgia) is an American professional basketball player with the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA. Josh is one of five children born to Paulette and Pete Smith. His siblings are Walter, Phebe, Kasola and...
5 Atlanta Hawks
x Raúl López RaulLopez Point guard
Raül López i Molist (born April 15, 1980 in Vic, Barcelona) is a Spanish professional basketball player. He has previously played for the NBA's Utah Jazz. López is a native of Vic, Barcelona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. At 6 ft...
   
x Ray Allen Ray Allen February 14th, 2006 Shooting guard
Walter Ray Allen (born July 20, 1975) is an American professional basketball player who is currently playing for the Boston Celtics in the National Basketball Association. He has played professionally for the Milwaukee Bucks, Seattle SuperSonics,...
20 Boston Celtics
x Anthony Johnson Anthony Johnson Point guard
Anthony Mark Johnson (born October 2, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player who last played with the Orlando Magic of the NBA. At 6'3" (1.91 m), he played the point guard position. He found success in pro basketball, becoming...
5  
Shooting guard
x Boštjan Nachbar Small forward
Boštjan "Boki" Nachbar (born July 3, 1980) is a Slovenian professional basketball player who signed a contract with UNICS Kazan in January 2012 after being inactive for few months due to injury. Nachbar started his professional career by joining the...
   
Power forward
x Devean George Shooting guard
Devean Jamar George (born August 29, 1977) is an American professional basketball player. He typically plays small forward but because of his athleticism and defensive activity, can defend many shooting guards as well. He attended high school at...
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Small forward
x Drew Gooden DrewGoodenMavs Power forward
Andrew Melvin "Drew" Gooden (born September 24, 1981) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association who plays for the Milwaukee Bucks. Gooden is a 6'10", 250 lbs. power forward who played collegiately at the...
0 Milwaukee Bucks
Center
x Radoslav Nesterović   Center
Radoslav "Rašo" Nesterović (Serbian Cyrillic: Радослав »Рашо« Нестеровић, Slovene: Radoslav »Rašo« Nesterovič), usually referred to in English as Rasho Nesterovic (born May 30, 1976), is a retired Slovenian professional basketball player. He holds...
12  
x Andreas Glyniadakis Center
Andreas Glyniadakis (alternate spelling: Andreas Gliniadakis) (Greek: Ανδρέας Γλυνιαδάκης; born August 26, 1981 in Chania, Greece) is a Greek professional basketball player. He is a 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m), 280 lb. (127 kg) center. He currently plays for...
   
x Alan Anderson   Shooting guard
Alan Jeffery Anderson (born on October 16, 1982, in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the Toronto Raptors. He plays the shooting guard and small forward positions. Anderson attended Michigan...
   
Small forward
x Fred Jones   Shooting guard
Frederick (Freddy/Fred) Terrell Jones (born March 11, 1979) is an American professional basketball player who plays at the shooting guard position. Born in Malvern, Arkansas, he moved to Portland, Oregon in middle school and became the Oregon High...
   
x Sofoklis Schortsanitis Schortsanitis in the middle. Power forward
Sofoklis Schortsanitis (Greek: Σοφοκλής Σχορτσανίτης) (born June 22, 1985) is a Greek professional basketball player. He was born in Tiko, Cameroon, to a Greek father and a Cameroonian mother. He is listed at 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) and 156.5 kg (345 lb)...
21 Maccabi Tel Aviv
Center
x Keyon Dooling Keyon Dooling Point guard
Keyon Latwae Dooling (born May 8, 1980) is an American professional basketball point guard with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida and attended the University of Missouri before...
51 Boston Celtics
Shooting guard
x Bobby Joe Hatton   Point guard
Roberto ("Bobby") José Hatton Negron (born October 11, 1976) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. Hatton has most notably played for Marist College in the NCAA and the National Superior Basketball League of Puerto Rico with the Arecibo...
   
x Asi Taulava Taulava Center
Pauliasi M. Taulava also known as Asi Taulava (born March 2, 1973 in Inglewood, California) is a American-born Filipino-Tongan professional basketball player playing in the Philippines for the Meralco Bolts in the Philippine Basketball Association....
   
x Julius Erving JuliusErvingSlamDunk1981 Small forward
Julius Winfield Erving II (born February 22, 1950), commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim. Erving helped legitimize the...
   
x John Stockton Bronze statue of Stockton Point guard
John Houston Stockton (born March 26, 1962) is a former American professional basketball player who spent his entire career as a point guard for the Utah Jazz of the NBA from 1984 to 2003. John Stockton is regarded as one of the best point guards of...
   
x Jarron Collins Jarron Collins PHX Center
Jarron Collins (born December 2, 1978) is an American professional basketball player. Jarron Collins was born in Northridge, California. He and his twin brother Jason graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles, California. Jarron shot 72...
20  
x Gordan Giriček Giricek Shooting guard
Gordan Giriček (also often spelled Gordon Giricek) (born June 20, 1977, in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Croatian professional basketball player who is currently playing for Cibona Zagreb. Previously, he played in the NBA for the Memphis...
   
x Austin Croshere Austin Croshere 2007 Power forward
Austin Nathan Croshere (born May 1, 1975) is a retired American professional basketball player and current analyst for Fox Sports Indiana broadcasts of Indiana Pacers games. He went to Palms Middle School and Crossroads School in Santa Monica,...
   
x Shavlik Randolph   Power forward
Ronald Shavlik Randolph (born November 24, 1983 in Raleigh, North Carolina) is an American professional basketball player. Randolph played for Duke University from 2002 to 2005. Randolph was named after his grandfather Ronnie Shavlik, an All...
   
x Raymond Felton Raymond Felton cropped Point guard
Raymond Bernard Felton, Jr. (born June 26, 1984 in Marion, South Carolina) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A point guard, Felton is listed...
5 Portland Trail Blazers
x Ronnie Price   Point guard
Ronald D'Wayne Price (born June 21, 1983 in Friendswood, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays with the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association. At 5-foot-8, Price was considered undersized as a senior...
2 Phoenix Suns
x Alonzo Mourning Alonzo Mourning Center
Alonzo Harding Mourning, Jr. (born February 8, 1970) is a former American professional basketball player, who played most of his 15-year NBA career for the Miami Heat. Nicknamed "Zo", Mourning played at center. His tenacity on defense twice earned...
   
x LaMarcus Aldridge LaMarcus Aldridge Power forward
LaMarcus Nurae Aldridge (born July 19, 1985) is an American professional basketball player with the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a 6 ft 11 in (2.11 m), 240-pound power forward/center and is the Portland...
12 Portland Trail Blazers
Center
x Jeff McInnis Jeff McInnis Bobcats tightly cropped Point guard
Jeff Lemans McInnis (born October 22, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player. He played in the NBA, in Greece (1996–97) and in the CBA (1998–99). He previously played for the New Jersey Nets, Cleveland Cavaliers, Portland Trail...
   
x Esteban Batista Batista with Maccabi. Power forward
Esteban Damián Batista Hernández (born September 2, 1983, in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan professional basketball player currently with Anadolu Efes in the Turkish Basketball League and Euroleague. He is also the first ever Uruguayan to play in the...
   
Center
x Paul Davis Paul Davis Wizards Power forward
Paul Davis (born July 21, 1984) is an American professional basketball player. Davis started his career at Reuther Middle School where his number has been retired. Davis played for Rochester High School, earning Mr. Basketball of Michigan honors in...
   
Center
x Robert Horry Power forward
Robert Keith Horry Jr. ( /ˈɒri/; born August 25, 1970) is a retired American basketball player and current sports commentator. He played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning seven championships, the most of any player not...
   
Small forward
x Allan Caidic    
Alan Vito Flores Caidic (born June 15, 1963, Pasig City, Philippines) is a retired professional basketball player from the Philippines and is currently an assistant coach of the Barangay Ginebra Kings in the PBA. He is considered by many to be the...
   
x David Robinson David Robinson Center
David Maurice Robinson (born (1965-08-06)August 6, 1965) is a retired American NBA basketball player, who played center for the San Antonio Spurs for his entire NBA career. Based on his prior service as an officer in the United States Navy, Robinson...
   
x Yao Ming Yao-ming-picture-1.jpg Center
Yao Ming (born September 12, 1980) is a retired Chinese professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). At the time of his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA...
   
x Steve Novak Steve novak Power forward
Steven Michael Novak (born June 13, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is listed as 6'10", 240 lbs. He played college basketball in the National...
16 New York Knicks
Small forward
x Fabricio Oberto Power forward
Fabricio Raúl Jesús Oberto (born March 21, 1975) is an Argentine-Italian professional basketball player. At 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) and 245 pounds (111 kg), he plays as a center. With the LNB club Atenas, in his native Argentina, Oberto began playing...
7  
Center
x Brian Scalabrine Scal Media Day Power forward
Brian David Scalabrine (born March 18, 1978) is an American professional basketball forward with the Chicago Bulls of the National Basketball Association. Raised in Enumclaw, Washington, Scalabrine attended the University of Southern California...
24 Chicago Bulls
x Scot Pollard Scot Media Day Power forward
Scot L. Pollard (born February 12, 1975) is a retired American professional basketball player. In an eleven-year NBA career, he played for five teams, spending the bulk of his career with the Sacramento Kings and the Indiana Pacers. Pollard was...
   
Center
x Ricky Sanchez   Power forward
Ricardo "Ricky" Sánchez (born July 6, 1987) is a Puerto Rican professional basketball player. He has played with the Idaho Stampede in the NBA Development League and the Continental Basketball Association, and with the Caguas Creoles and Humacao...
   
x Elton Brand Elton Brand vs Warriors cropped Power forward
Elton Tyron Brand (born March 11, 1979 in Cortlandt Manor, New York) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the 1st overall pick in the 1999...
42 Philadelphia 76ers
x Al Jefferson Chuck Hayes Al Jefferson Power forward
Al Ricardo Jefferson (born January 4, 1985) is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Utah Jazz of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Born on January 4, 1985 in Monticello, Mississippi, Al spent his childhood in the...
25 Utah Jazz
Center
x Brad Holland    
John Bradley (Brad) Holland (born December 6, 1956, in Billings, Montana) is a retired American professional basketball player. He played for four years at UCLA (1976–79) and was the 14th player taken in the first round of the 1979 NBA Draft by the...
   
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