World's 25 Best Professional Basketball Players Of All Time

[Euroleague]

FIBA international Olympic committee 25 best players of international basketball history. Not a 1-25 ranking, just an overall list. So like the NBA's 50 Greatest Players list. But unlike the NBA greatest 50 list, it's divided up by 5 players for each one of the 5 main positions.

Career performance in professional worldwide basketball taken into consideration, at the senior pro club and senior men's national team levels. Weighted mostly to the NBA, and then to the EuroLeague, and then to various other pro leagues after that for club play. Weighted mostly to the three major FIBA national team competitions. Summer Olympics and FIBA World Cup first, then FIBA EuroBasket, and then to various other international competitions after that.

https://i.postimg.cc/8zpdNggs/World-All-Time-Basketball-Dream-Team.jpg

PG

Steve Nash (Canada)
Tony Parker (France)
Vassilis Spanoulis (Greece)
Magic Johnson (USA)
Sasha Djordjevic (Yugoslavia)

SG

Juan Carlos Navarro (Spain)
Manu Ginobili (Argentina)
Michael Jordan (USA)
Drazen Petrovic (Croatia)
Kobe Bryant (USA)

SF

LeBron James (USA)
Toni Kukoc (Croatia)
Larry Bird (USA)
Oscar Schmidt (Brazil)
Scottie Pippen (USA)

PF

Kevin Durant (USA)
Pau Gasol (Spain)
Luis Scola (Argentina)
Tim Duncan (USA)
Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)

C

Yao Ming (China)
Hakeem Olajuwon (USA)
Dino Radja (Yugoslavia / Croatia)
Arvydas Sabonis (Lithuania)
Vlade Divac (Yugoslavia)

[brownmamba00]

Spamoulis is/was a bum

[RRR3]

The GOAT returns :bowdown:

[Euroleague]

Oscar Schmidt is the only player on that list that never played in the NBA.

[DoctorP]

i like this.

[Mask the Embiid]

hakeem = usa

melo = not on the list...




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[Kblaze8855]

Melo internationally was a problem. More than Bird was in his last 15 minutes of basketball before his back was fused straight.

And Yao is high.

[Kblaze8855]

And no Galis?

[LostCause]

Spanoulis!

The true GOAT!

[dreamshake]

LeBronze on this list? What a joke.

[Sulico]

Worst list of all time.
USSR have 2 gold olympic medals (2nd all time after USA), 4 silver medals (best with YUG), 3 bronze (best with Brasil and LTU).
14!!! Eurobasket titles, second best is Yugoslavia with 8.
3rd place in World cup titles behind USA and 1 less title than YUG.

And all they give us is 1 player in Sabonis who represented LTU half of his career?

Meanwhile YUGs who won significantly less than us get 5!!!

CANADA?! That won nothing ever, get 1? Best result silver olympic medal at 1936? WTF?

France who won 1 eurobasket in their existance get 1.

Greece? Germany? China? Bum basketball teams that barely won anything, all get 1 player.

[Gougou]

Dwayne Wade, Melo not on this list? :facepalm

The PF list is very accurate no doubt.

[GimmeThat]

this is probably the part where only doing 1 sport makes you uncool

[Phoenix]

Yeah how is Melo not on the list? :facepalm

[SATAN]

Imagine sitting around making lists and being concerned about other peoples lists' :lol

[Goalgoalabc]

I think John Stockton should be one of the best PG

[RogueBorg]

Before his injuries, Arvydas Sabonis was one of the best centers in the world including NBA centers.

https://medium.com/@keithpsmith78/arvydas-sabonis-the-original-unicorn-a10ab6c3738e

[brutalBBQ]

LeBronze on this list? What a joke.

This guy gets it.

[Shogon]

hakeem = usa

melo = not on the list...




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Olajuwon played on the USA team, you retarded mother****er.

****ING retard man, ****!!

[Euroleague]

Melo internationally was a problem. More than Bird was in his last 15 minutes of basketball before his back was fused straight.

And Yao is high.

They didn't rank them. They are just listed in no order. So same way NBA did the top 50 players list.


Imagine sitting around making lists and being concerned about other peoples lists' :lol

Well, the workers probably don't care, since they get paid. And I would guess the committee does it on the clock also.

[Euroleague]

And no Galis?

Personally, I'd take him over some guards on that list, like Sasha Djordjevic and Tony Parker. But in comparison to them career-wise, it seems fair. Galis never made a EuroLeague Final, and he only made two finals in major FIBA tournaments (one gold and one silver at EuroBasket). Comparatively speaking, that's no way in hell enough to make such a list. Stats-wise he should have made it, as that would seem to be the main reason why Oscar Schmidt made it.

Although at the same time, using that criteria of not winning enough major team titles, then Nash and Yao shouldn't be on the list either, considering they didn't win anything that mattered either.

[tpols]

Oscar Schmidt is the only player on that list that never played in the NBA.

im gonna watch this guys highlights and read up on him because i vaguely remember his name somehow.

i feel like there are a lot of players who never played in the NBA that were ridiculously good at basketball, where things tend to be just an athletic freakshow.

[Euroleague]

im gonna watch this guys highlights and read up on him because i vaguely remember his name somehow.

i feel like there are a lot of players who never played in the NBA that were ridiculously good at basketball, where things tend to be just an athletic freakshow.

Some of the best international players that never played in the NBA:

Oscar Schmidt as mentioned...

Theo Papaloukas

Ramunas Siskauskas

Dimitris Diamantidis

Dejan Bodiroga

Sergei Belov

Drazen Dalipagic

Sergio Llull

Dragan Kicanovic

Radivoj Korac

Kreso Cosic

Nick Galis

And a whole bunch more that I could direct you to.

[Lebron23]

FIBA international Olympic committee 25 best players of international basketball history. Not a 1-25 ranking, just an overall list. So like the NBA's 50 Greatest Players list. But unlike the NBA greatest 50 list, it's divided up by 5 players for each one of the 5 main positions.

Career performance in professional worldwide basketball taken into consideration, at the senior pro club and senior men's national team levels. Weighted mostly to the NBA, and then to the EuroLeague, and then to various other pro leagues after that for club play. Weighted mostly to the three major FIBA national team competitions. Summer Olympics and FIBA World Cup first, then FIBA EuroBasket, and then to various other international competitions after that.

https://i.postimg.cc/8zpdNggs/World-All-Time-Basketball-Dream-Team.jpg

PG

Steve Nash (Canada)
Tony Parker (France)
Vassilis Spanoulis (Greece)
Magic Johnson (USA)
Sasha Djordjevic (Yugoslavia)

SG

Juan Carlos Navarro (Spain)
Manu Ginobili (Argentina)
Michael Jordan (USA)
Drazen Petrovic (Croatia)
Kobe Bryant (USA)

SF

LeBron James (USA)
Toni Kukoc (Croatia)
Larry Bird (USA)
Oscar Schmidt (Brazil)
Scottie Pippen (USA)

PF

Kevin Durant (USA)
Pau Gasol (Spain)
Luis Scola (Argentina)
Tim Duncan (USA)
Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)

C

Yao Ming (China)
Hakeem Olajuwon (USA)
Dino Radja (Yugoslavia / Croatia)
Arvydas Sabonis (Lithuania)
Vlade Divac (Yugoslavia)

Yes sir

[72-10]

I'm not sure I get the point of the thread. You're saying that only about 10 of the world's top 25 pro ballers are American?

I will certainly check out all these players at some point soon, though.

[FKAri]

Duncan? :oldlol:

[Jasper]

Dwayne Wade, Melo not on this list? :facepalm

The PF list is very accurate no doubt.

first thing I thought - who ever made the list was most definitely euro ...
Dwade not on list is not a bball mind

[Roundball_Rock]

I think John Stockton should be one of the best PG

He played 7 MPG on the Dream Team--even Laettner played more than Stockton on the DT.