- Baron Davis
Baron Walter Louis Davis (born April 13 1979, in Compton, California) is an American basketball player currently starting at point guard for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. He began playing basketball at the age of five. Later, Davis became a star at Crossroads School and UCLA. Davis was drafted by the Charlotte Hornets as the number three pick in the 1999 NBA Draft.
- Monta Ellis
Monta Ellis (born October 26, 1985 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player, who plays the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is currently playing for the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
- Stephen Jackson
Stephen Jesse Jackson is an American professional basketball player for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors. Jackson, a 6'8" swingman, is currently in his 7th NBA season.
- Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney "J-Rich" Richardson (born January 20 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan) is an American professional basketball player, currently playing shooting guard for the National Basketball Association's Charlotte Bobcats. He recently played for the Golden State Warriors, from whom he was traded June 28, 2007 after six years with the team. The Warriors drafted him with the 5th overall pick in the 2001 NBA Draft out of Michigan State University.
- Don Nelson
Donald Arvid Nelson (born May 15, 1940 in Muskegon, Michigan) is a National Basketball Association head coach. He was named the head coach of the Golden State Warriors on August 30, 2006, his second stint with the franchise. He has also coached the Milwaukee Bucks, the New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks. As of March 4, 2007, Don Nelson's overall NBA coaching record is 1,216-914. An innovator, Nelson is credited with, among other things, …
- Al Harrington
Albert (Al) Harrington (born February 17 1980 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player currently playing for the NBA's Golden State Warriors. The power forward/center stands six-feet nine-inches (2.06 m), weighing 250 pounds (113 kg). At only 18 years of age, he was selected by the Pacers with the 25th pick of the 1998 NBA Draft, and spent six seasons with them, primarily coming off the bench.
- Adonal Foyle
Adonal Foyle graduated from Colgate University in 1998 with a degree in History (Magna Cum Laude). He is presently pursuing a Master's Degree in Sports Psychology at the John F. Kennedy University in Moraga, California. Drafted as a first round lottery pick in 1997, he is a veteran NBA Center, now playing for the Golden State Warriors.
- Chris Mullin
Christopher Paul Mullin (born July 30, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York) is the General Manager of the National Basketball Association's Golden State Warriors and a former American basketball player. Mullin played small forward in the NBA from 1985 to 2001. After playing at St. John's University, during which he won Big East Men's Basketball Player of the Year three times and was a member of the 1984 amateur U.S. team, …
- Matt Barnes
Matt Kelly Barnes (born March 9 1980 in Santa Clara, California) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
- Antawn Jamison
Antawn Cortez Jamison [pronounced an-TWAHN] (born June 12 1976, in Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He currently plays power forward for the Washington Wizards and the USA National Team. Jamison played college basketball at University of North Carolina for three seasons, averaging 19.0 points and 9.9 rebounds per game.
- Kelenna Azubuike
Kelenna David Azubuike (born December 16 1983 in London, England, UK) is an English professional basketball player who currently plays for the NBA's Golden State Warriors.
- Marco Belinelli
Marco Stefano Belinelli, nicknamed "Beli", (born March 25, 1986 in San Giovanni in Persiceto, Italy) is an Italian professional basketball player. He is 196 cm (6' 5") tall and plays as a shooting guard, and he is considered to be one of Italy's greatest basketball talents. He was selected 18th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors.
- Larry Hughes
Larry Hughes (born January 23 1979 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American professional basketball player who plays point guard for the National Basketball Association's Cleveland Cavaliers. He is known by several nicknames including "STL" which references his being one of the few professional basketball players to come out of the Saint Louis area.
- Brandan Wright
Brandan Wright (born October 5, 1987 in Nashville, Tennessee) is an American basketball player who played for the North Carolina Tar Heels in the 2006-07 season. Wright, 6'10" tall with shoes and 210 lbs, was a freshman power forward. He is also known for his 7'3.75" "wingspan." He was drafted Number 8 overall in the 2007 NBA Draft by the Charlotte Bobcats. He was subsequently traded to the Golden State Warriors for Jason Richardson.
- Patrick O'Bryant
Patrick O'Bryant (born June 20, 1986, in Oskaloosa, Iowa) is an American professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association, who drafted him 9th overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. He attended Bradley University for two years and led the Braves to the Sweet Sixteen of the 2006 NCAA tournament before losing to Memphis. His breakout performance at the tournament caught the eyes of NBA scouts.
- George Karl
George Matthew Karl (born May 12, 1951 in Penn Hills, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American former National Basketball Association (NBA) and American Basketball Association (ABA) player and current head coach of the Denver Nuggets. Karl is currently 12th on the all-time win list for coaches in the NBA. After a college career at the University of North Carolina he signed with the ABA's San Antonio Spurs in 1973. When the Spurs joined the NBA in 1976, …
- Joe Smith
Joseph Leynard Smith (born July 26 1975, in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Bulls in the NBA. His height is listed as 6'10". Smith attended Maury High School and played at the University of Maryland. He was selected by the Golden State Warriors as the first overall pick of the 1995 NBA Draft. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 1995-96 season. Smith is a power forward.
- Erick Dampier
Erick Travez Dampier (born July 14, 1975, in New Hebron, Mississippi) is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6 ft 11 in / 265 lb. center who currently plays for the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA. Erick played competitively at Lawrence County High School in Monticello, Mississippi, where he led the rural county to two state championships. Dampier played college basketball at Mississippi State University. While there he became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi.
- Ike Diogu
Ikechukwu Somtochukwu Diogu, better known as Ike Diogu (born September 11, 1983 in Buffalo, New York), is an American professional basketball player for the NBA's Indiana Pacers. His parents are natives of Nigeria and moved to the United States in 1980 to pursue further education. He later moved from Buffalo, New York to Garland, Texas and enrolled in Garland High School. Diogu stands at 6 feet, 8 inches (2.03 m) tall, …
- Gregg Popovich
Gregg Popovich is the head coach of the National Basketball Association's San Antonio Spurs
- Robert Parish
Robert Lee Parish (born in Shreveport, Louisiana) is a retired American basketball center. His nickname was "The Chief", after the mute Native American in the film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". According to legend, former Celtics forward Cedric Maxwell gave Parish this nickname because of his stoic nature. After a modest career at Centenary College of Louisiana, …
- Mike Montgomery
Mike Montgomery (born February 27 1947 in Long Beach, California, United States) is the former head coach of the Golden State Warriors in the NBA. He was also the men's basketball coach of the Stanford Cardinal from 1986 to 2004 and at the University of Montana for eight seasons prior to coaching at Stanford.
- John Starks
John Levell Starks (born August 10, 1965 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) is an American former basketball player who gained fame while playing at shooting guard for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association in the 1990s. Starks was listed at 6'5" during his NBA playing career. Starks bagged groceries for several years before playing basketball for several community colleges. He finished his collegiate career at Oklahoma State University.
- Bernard King
Bernard King (born December 4, 1956 in Brooklyn, New York) is a retired American professional basketball player at the small forward position in the NBA and one of the NBA's all-time greatest scorers. He played all or part of 14 seasons with the New Jersey Nets (1977-1979, 1992-93), Utah Jazz (1979-80), Golden State Warriors, (1981-1982), New York Knicks (1983-1987), and the Washington Bullets (1987-1991).
- Hakeem Olajuwon
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born Akeem Abdul Olajuwon on January 21, 1963) is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Olajuwon played center for the Houston Rockets, whom he led to back-to-back championships in 1994 and 1995, and the Toronto Raptors. Olajuwon travelled from his home country of Nigeria to play collegiately for the University of Houston.
- Austin Croshere
Austin Nathan Croshere (born May 1 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA.
- Rick Adelman
Richard Leonard Adelman (born June 16 1946 in Lynwood, California, United States) is a former basketball player, assistant coach and head coach in the National Basketball Association. He is currently the Houston Rockets Head Coach, after the firing of Jeff Van Gundy on May 23, 2007. He has served as head coach of the Golden State Warriors, the Portland Trail Blazers, and the Sacramento Kings previously.
- Speedy Claxton
Craig "Speedy" Claxton (born May 8 1978, in Hempstead, New York) is an American professional basketball player with the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. Prior to the NBA, Claxton played at Hofstra University, where he played under current Villanova University coach Jay Wright. At Hofstra, Claxton led the Pride to the America East Championship defeating the University of Delaware in the championship game at Hofstra Arena.
- Donyell Marshall
Donyell Lamar Marshall (born May 18, 1973 in Reading, Pennsylvania USA) is an American professional basketball player currently with the NBA's Cleveland Cavaliers. His great uncle is Hall-of-Fame American football player Lenny Moore. A graduate of Reading High in Reading, Pennsylvania, the 6'9", 230 lb. forward was selected after his junior year at the University of Connecticut by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the fourth overall pick of the 1994 NBA Draft.
- Jeff Foster
Jeffrey Douglas Foster (born January 16, 1977 in San Antonio, Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Indiana Pacers of the NBA. He was selected 21st overall by the Golden State Warriors in the 1999 NBA Draft out of Southwest Texas State University, but his draft rights were immediately traded to the Pacers in exchange for Vonteego Cummings and a future first-round draft pick.
- Earl Boykins
Earl Antoine Boykins (born June 2 1976 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association. He played collegiately at Eastern Michigan University from 1995 to 1998. He earned All-Mid-American Conference first team honors in his junior and senior year. During his senior year, Earl was second in the NCAA with 26.8 ppg. He holds the career record for assists at his alma mater.
- Marc Jackson
Marc Anthony Jackson (born January 16 1975 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA for the New Orleans Hornets. After a career at Temple University, he was drafted in the second round (37th overall) of the 1997 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors; however he did not commence play with them until 2000. Fearing that they would lose out as there was no guarantee he would sign a second contract with them, …
- Rick Barry
Richard (Rick) Francis Dennis Barry III (born March 28, 1944, in Elizabeth, New Jersey) is an American former professional basketball player. He is considered by many veteran basketball observers to be the greatest pure small forward of all time as a result of his deadly outside shot, uncanny court vision, knowledge and execution of team defense principles, …
- Josh Powell
Josh Powell (born January 25 1983 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a professional basketball player in the NBA. He currently plays for the Golden State Warriors.
- Dan Dickau
Daniel (Dan) David Dickau (born September 16, 1978 in Portland, Oregon) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA with the New York Knicks. Dickau graduated from Prairie High School in Vancouver, WA. He played for the University of Washington Huskies prior to transferring to, and becoming a standout point guard for, the Gonzaga University Bulldogs. He was named a first team All-American his senior year along with future NBA players and teammate Juan Dixon, …
- Brian Cardinal
Brian Lee Cardinal (born May 2 1977 in Tolono, Illinois) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays for the Memphis Grizzlies of the NBA.
- Eric Musselman
Eric P. Musselman (born November 19 1964 in Ashland, Ohio) is an American basketball coach and the former head coach of the NBA's Sacramento Kings and Golden State Warriors. The son of the late Bill Musselman, Eric was a successful head coach in the Continental Basketball Association before becoming an assistant coach with the Minnesota Timberwolves, Orlando Magic (under Chuck Daly and Doc Rivers), and Atlanta Hawks (under Lon Kruger).
- Keith McLeod
Keith McLeod (born November 5 1979 in Canton, Ohio) is an American professional basketball player currently with the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association at the point guard position. Previously, he played for the Minnesota Timberwolves, Utah Jazz, and the Golden State Warriors. McLeod was the 2002 Mid-American Conference men's basketball player of the year, while leading the Falcons to a berth in the NIT.
- Quinton Ross
Quinton Lenord Ross (born April 30 1981 in Dallas Texas) is an American professional basketball player who currently plays small forward for the Los Angeles Clippers of the NBA. Ross led Dallas' Justin F. Kimball High School to the state finals, but they lost in the championship game. He went undrafted in the 2003 NBA Draft after graduating from Southern Methodist University where he majored in economics.
- P. J. Carlesimo
Peter J. (P. J.) Carlesimo (born May 30, 1949 in Scranton, Pennsylvania) is the current head coach of the Seattle Supersonics and a former college and professional basketball coach, and son of Peter A. Carlesimo who was the longtime coach and athletic director at the University of Scranton and Fordham University.