List of Famous Basketball Players

Destiny Usman Garuba Alari is a Spanish professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. Listed at 2.03 m, he plays the center position.

Troy Daniels is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where in 2013, he set the Atlantic 10 Conference record for made three-point field goals in a single game.

Taj Jami Gibson is an American professional basketball player for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Gibson played college basketball for the USC Trojans and was selected 26th overall by the Chicago Bulls in the 2009 NBA draft. The 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) power forward played mostly a sixth man role off the bench for the Bulls before being traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder in 2017, later signing with the Minnesota Timberwolves the same year.

Ramu Tokashiki is a Japanese female professional basketball player for the JX-Eneos Sunflowers of the Women's Japan Basketball League (WJBL).

Rodney Christian McGruder is an American professional basketball player for the Detroit Pistons of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Kansas State Wildcats.

Furkan Korkmaz is a Turkish professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected 26th in the 2016 NBA draft. He is 6 ft 7 inches and mainly plays the shooting guard position.

DeMarre LaEdrick Carroll is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Carroll was selected 27th overall by the Memphis Grizzlies in the 2009 NBA draft and has also played for the Houston Rockets, Denver Nuggets, Utah Jazz, Atlanta Hawks, Toronto Raptors, and Brooklyn Nets. Carroll formerly played for the University of Missouri and Vanderbilt University. He is the nephew of former Missouri and former Arkansas men's basketball coach Mike Anderson.

Emmanuel Kabeya Mudiay is a Congolese-American professional basketball player. He played high school basketball for Grace Preparatory Academy and Prime Prep Academy in Texas, where he gained much of the media's attention. He committed to play for the SMU Mustangs men's basketball team on August 24, 2013 but later made the decision to forgo college and joined the Guangdong Southern Tigers in China. After an injury-riddled season in China, he was selected with the seventh overall pick in the 2015 NBA draft by the Denver Nuggets.

Willie Trill Cauley-Stein is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball with the Kentucky Wildcats. He previously played with the Sacramento Kings for four seasons before signing the Golden State Warriors in the 2019 offseason. In January 2020 he was traded to the Mavericks.

Hernán Abel Montenegro, is a retired Argentine basketball player. He is considered one of the best Latin America centers ever by journalists and colleagues. Montenegro was also a very charismatic player, nicknamed "El Loco", due to his eccentric behaviour on and off the court.