Pro Athlete
Also known as
- Add other possible names for this type
Pro athlete is a person who plays a sport professionally. This is a general type to be used on conjunction with other types (basketball player, football player) and is primarily used to capture where the player was drafted.Other possibly properties...
more
-
Results: 1 – 30 of 14,153
| close name | close image | close Also Typed With | Drafted | close article | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| close Pick (overall) | close Team | ||||
| Kobe Bryant |
|
Person | 13 | Charlotte Hornets |
Kobe Bean Bryant (born ) is an American All-Star shooting guard who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. Bryant is the only son of former Philadelphia 76ers player and former Los Angeles Sparks head coach Joe ...
|
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sponsored Recipient | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Michael Jordan |
|
Person | 3 | Chicago Bulls |
Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17 1963) is an American retired professional basketball player and active businessman. His biography on the National Basketball Association (NBA) website states, "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest...
|
| Film actor | |||||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Sponsored Recipient | |||||
| more | |||||
| Adrian Peterson | Person |
Adrian Nicholas Peterson (born July 1, 1979 in Gainesville, Florida) is an American football player. He is currently a running back and specialist for the Chicago Bears. He is an alumnus of Georgia Southern University, where he set numerous school,...
|
|||
| Football player | |||||
| Sidney Rice | Person | 44 | Minnesota Vikings | ||
| Dwyane Wade |
|
Person | 5 | Miami Heat |
Dwyane Tyrone Wade, Jr. (born January 17 1982) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Miami Heat in the National Basketball Association (NBA). His nicknames include "Flash" and "D-Wade". Wade was named 2006...
|
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Adrian Peterson |
|
Person | 7 | Minnesota Vikings |
Adrian Lewis Peterson (born March 21, 1985 in Palestine, Texas.), nicknamed A.D. ("All Day"), is a professional American football running back for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football as a running...
|
| Football player | |||||
| Marcus Camby | Person |
Marcus D. Camby (born March 22, 1974 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American professional basketball player, who currently plays for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association. He won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Walt Bellamy |
|
Person |
Walter Jones Bellamy (born July 24, 1939 in New Bern, North Carolina) is a retired American professional basketball player.
Bellamy was the starting center on the gold medal-winning American basketball team at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Ten of the...
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Bob Pettit |
|
Person |
Robert E. Lee "Bob" Pettit (born December 12, 1932, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.) is a retired American professional basketball player. He played 11 seasons in the NBA, all with the Milwaukee/St. Louis Hawks (1954-1965). He was the first...
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Monta Ellis | Person |
Monta Ellis (born October 26 1985, in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player, who plays the point guard and shooting guard positions.
Ellis attended Lanier High School in Jackson where he was named Parade Magazine High...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| John Havlicek | Person |
John J. Havlicek (born April 8, 1940 in Martins Ferry, Ohio) is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons.
In the...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Damon Stoudamire | Person |
Damon Lamon Stoudamire (born September 3 1973) is an American professional basketball player, currently with the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA. He officially became a free agent at 10 pm on January 30, 2008 ET when he cleared waivers after a buyout...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Jamaal Wilkes | Person |
Jamaal Wilkes (born Jackson Keith Wilkes on May 2, 1953 in Berkeley, California) is an American former National Basketball Association player who played the small forward position and won four NBA championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Larry Bird |
|
Person |
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Bird (born December 7 1956) is an American retired NBA basketball player, widely considered one of the best players of all time, and one of the best clutch performers in the history of sports. Drafted into the NBA sixth...
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Basketball Coach | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Film actor | |||||
| more | |||||
| Tracy McGrady | Person |
Tracy Lamar McGrady, Jr (born May 24 1979, in Bartow, Florida) is an American professional basketball player, currently positioned at starting shooting guard for the Houston Rockets in the National Basketball Association (NBA), but he can also play...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Tom Heinsohn |
|
Person |
Thomas William Heinsohn (born August 26, 1934 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is a former professional basketball player, known for his time as a player on the Boston Celtics National Basketball Association (NBA) team. He also coached the team from 1970...
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Rony Seikaly | Person |
Ronald Fred Seikaly Born May 10, 1965 in Beirut, Lebanon (but also a United States citizen by birth) is a retired Lebanese-American basketball player.
In the age of 3 years Rony Seikaly moved to Greece attended an American high school in Athens,...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Don Meineke | Person |
Don "Monk" Meineke (born October 30, 1930 in Dayton, Ohio) is a former professional basketball player.
Meineke received the National Basketball Association's first Rookie of the Year Award after the 1952-53 NBA season while playing for the Fort...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Derrick Coleman | Person |
Derrick D. Coleman (born June 21 1967, in Mobile, Alabama) is a retired American basketball player in the NBA. Coleman grew up and attended high school in Detroit, Michigan and attended college at Syracuse University. He was selected first overall...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Bill Russell |
|
Person |
William Felton "Bill" Russell (born February 12, 1934 in Monroe, Louisiana) is a retired American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A five-time winner of the NBA...
|
||
| Film actor | |||||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| SNL host | |||||
| Wilt Chamberlain | Person |
Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, and Chairman of the Boards, was an American professional NBA basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Deceased Person | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Film actor | |||||
| Mark Eaton | Person |
Mark E. Eaton (born January 24 1957, in Inglewood, California) is a retired American professional basketball player who was a member of the NBA's Utah Jazz from 1982 to 1994. He was famous for his giant frame (7-foot-4, 290 pounds) and his strong...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Terry Dischinger |
|
Person |
Terry Gilbert Dischinger (born November 14 1940 in Terre Haute, Indiana) is a retired American basketball player in the NBA.
The son of a football coach and a great all-around athlete, Dischinger earned All-State honors in football, track and...
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Dana Barros | Person |
Dana Bruce Barros (born April 13 1967, in Boston, Massachusetts) is a retired American professional basketball player from the NBA. Before the NBA he played at Boston College, finishing as one of the school's all-time leading scorers.
The 5' 11",...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Chris Paul | Person |
Christopher Emmanuel Paul (born May 6 1985) is a professional basketball player who currently plays point guard for the New Orleans Hornets of the NBA. His nickname is CP3.
Paul played at West Forsyth High School in Clemmons, North Carolina, where...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
| Ralph Sampson | Person |
Ralph Lee Sampson (born July 7 1960 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a retired American college and professional basketball player. He is one of only 98 players on the list of college men's basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds.
Ralph...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Moses Malone | Person |
Moses Eugene Malone (born March 23, 1955 in Petersburg, Virginia) is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player who also played in the American Basketball Association (ABA), as well as on the NBA's Atlanta Hawks,...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Dell Curry | Person |
Wardell Stephen Curry (born June 25 1964 in Harrisonburg, Virginia) is a retired American professional basketball player at the shooting guard position who received his education from Fort Defiance High School in Virginia and Virginia Tech. He then...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Ernie DiGregorio | Person |
Ernest (Ernie) DiGregorio (born January 15 1951, in North Providence, Rhode Island) is an American former National Basketball Association player.
After playing for the Providence College Friars, DiGregorio was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels of...
|
|||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Emeka Okafor |
|
Person |
Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor (born September 28 1982, in Houston, Texas), is an American professional basketball player playing at power forward and center for the Charlotte Bobcats of the National Basketball Association....
|
||
| Basketball Player | |||||
| Sports League Award Winner | |||||
| Olympic athlete | |||||
