The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Cape Verde
This page contains a list of the greatest Cape Verdian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Cape Verde. This makes Cape Verde the birth place of the 56th most number of Basketball Players behind Uzbekistan and Tanzania.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Cape Verdian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Cape Verdian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Edy Tavares (1992 - )
With an HPI of 35.97, Edy Tavares is the most famous Cape Verdian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Walter Samuel "Edy" Tavares da Veiga (born 22 March 1992) is a Cape Verdean professional basketball player for Real Madrid of the Spanish Liga ACB and the EuroLeague. He was selected with the 43rd overall pick in 2014 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks and has played internationally for the Cape Verde national basketball team. Tavares receives praise as a physical phenomenon, standing 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) tall and possessing a 7 ft 9 in (2.36 m) wingspan. After being scouted in his hometown, Tavares started playing for Gran Canaria in 2009. He was drafted in the 2014 NBA draft by the Atlanta Hawks where he played one season. In 2017, Tavares signed with Real Madrid where he became a star player, winning two EuroLeague titles and three All-EuroLeague Team selections, as well as several domestic accolades. Tavares is the EuroLeague's all-time leader in blocks. Tavares guided the Cape Verdean national team to their first-ever World Cup in 2023, and has played at AfroBasket in 2013 and 2021.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as basketball players born between 1992 and 1992. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Edy Tavares.
