Curated category
Small forwards
- Kevin DurantKevin Durant was born on the 29th of September 1988 in Washington, D.C., and grew up dreaming of one day playing for his favorite team, the Toronto Raptors…
- LeBron JamesLeBron Raymonde James Sr. was born on the 30th of December 1984, at Cleveland Clinic Akron General, to a 16-year-old mother named Gloria Marie James.
- Clyde DrexlerClyde Austin Drexler Sr. was born on the 22nd of June, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and by the time his professional basketball career ended, he had…
- Luka DončićLuka Dončić was seven years old when he first played organized basketball. His opponents were boys up to ten years old, at a primary school in Ljubljana.
- Larry BirdLarry Bird walked into the locker room at the inaugural Three-Point Shootout during the 1986 NBA All-Star Weekend and asked who was going to finish second.
- Kawhi LeonardKawhi Leonard hit a shot on the 12th of May, 2019, that bounced off the rim four times before falling. Game 7. Eastern Conference semifinals.
- Hedo TürkoğluHedo Türkoğlu was the first Turkish-born player in NBA history, selected 16th overall in the 2000 draft by the Sacramento Kings.
- Chuck Cooper (basketball)Chuck Cooper stepped onto an NBA court for the first time on the 1st of November, 1950, against the Fort Wayne Pistons. That night, three men crossed a line…
- Charles BarkleyCharles Wade Barkley was born on the 20th of February 1963 in Leeds, Alabama, a small town 17 miles east of Birmingham. He was the first Black baby born at…
- Scottie PippenScottie Pippen grew up in Hamburg, Arkansas, the youngest of twelve children, and was not offered a single college scholarship out of high school.
- Andrew WigginsAndrew Wiggins shattered a glass backboard at the Dufferin Clark Community Centre in Vaughan, Ontario, when he was 14 years old.
- Luol DengLuol Deng was born on the 16th of April 1985 in Wau, a city in what was then Sudan and is now South Sudan. Before he was a teenager, he had already fled a…
- Giannis AntetokounmpoGiannis Sina Ougko Antetokounmpo was born on the 6th of December 1994, in Athens, Greece, to Nigerian parents who had no work permits and struggled to find…
- Al CerviAl Cervi earned the nickname "Digger" not for anything gentle, but for the way he dug into opponents on defense. Born on the 12th of February 1917 in…
- George GervinGeorge Gervin scored 63 points in a single regular-season game while protecting a scoring title by the slimmest margin in NBA history: seven-hundredths of a…
- Toni KukočToni Kukoč was born on the 18th of September, 1968, in Split, Croatia, and he grew up playing table tennis well enough to win youth category titles in the…
- Rick BarryRick Barry holds a record that no other basketball player in history can claim. He is the only person ever to lead the NCAA, the ABA, and the NBA in scoring…
- Ossie SchectmanOssie Schectman scored the first basket in what would become the NBA, and he did it on the 1st of November, 1946, in Toronto.
- Julius ErvingJulius Winfield Erving II was born on the 22nd of February, 1950, in East Meadow, Long Island, and by the time he retired in 1987, he had scored more than…
- Andrei KirilenkoAndrei Kirilenko was born on the 18th of February 1981 in Izhevsk, a Soviet industrial city whose most famous export was a rifle.
- Detlef SchrempfDetlef Schrempf was born on the 21st of January 1963 in Leverkusen, West Germany. He began his basketball journey with youth teams at Bayer Leverkusen before…
- Earl LloydEarl Francis Lloyd stepped onto a basketball court on the night of the 31st of October 1950, and changed American sports history.
- Peja StojakovićPeja Stojaković once opened a game by scoring 20 consecutive points before any teammate had touched the ball. That moment, on the 14th of November 2006…