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 |
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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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| x Tayshaun Prince |
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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...
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22 | Detroit Pistons |
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| x Richard Hamilton |
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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...
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32 | Chicago Bulls |
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| x Nazr Mohammed |
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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...
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8 | Oklahoma City Thunder |
| x Chauncey Billups |
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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...
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1 | Los Angeles Clippers |
| x Ben Wallace |
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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 ...
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6 | Detroit Pistons |
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| x Chris Webber |
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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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| x Mark Madsen |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Pete Maravich |
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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...
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| x Carmelo Anthony |
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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...
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7 | New York Knicks |
| x Sebastian Telfair |
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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...
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31 | Phoenix Suns |
| x Amare Stoudemire |
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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....
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| x Dino Rađa |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Marquis Daniels |
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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...
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4 | Boston Celtics |
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| x Damir Markota |
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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...
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| x Chris Wilcox |
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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...
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44 | Boston Celtics |
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| x Mikki Moore |
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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...
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31 | Golden State Warriors |
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| x Josh Smith |
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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...
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5 | Atlanta Hawks |
| x Raúl López |
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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...
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| x Ray Allen |
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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,...
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20 | Boston Celtics |
| x Anthony Johnson |
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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...
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| x Boštjan Nachbar |
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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...
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| x Devean George |
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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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| x Drew Gooden |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Andreas Glyniadakis |
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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...
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| 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...
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| 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...
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| x Sofoklis Schortsanitis |
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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)...
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21 | Maccabi Tel Aviv |
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| x Keyon Dooling |
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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...
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51 | Boston Celtics |
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| 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...
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| x Asi Taulava |
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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....
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| x Julius Erving |
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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...
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| x John Stockton |
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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...
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| x Jarron Collins |
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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...
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| x Gordan Giriček |
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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...
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| x Austin Croshere |
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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,...
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| 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...
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| x Raymond Felton |
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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...
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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...
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| x Alonzo Mourning |
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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...
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| x LaMarcus Aldridge |
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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...
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12 | Portland Trail Blazers |
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| x Jeff McInnis |
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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...
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| x Esteban Batista |
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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...
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| x Paul Davis |
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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...
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| x Robert Horry |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x David Robinson |
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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...
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| x Yao Ming |
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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...
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| x Steve Novak |
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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...
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16 | New York Knicks |
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| x Fabricio Oberto |
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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...
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| x Brian Scalabrine |
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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...
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24 | Chicago Bulls |
| x Scot Pollard |
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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...
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| 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...
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| x Elton Brand |
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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...
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42 | Philadelphia 76ers |
| x Al Jefferson |
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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...
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25 | Utah Jazz |
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| 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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