The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Jamaica
This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 51st most number of Basketball Players behind The Bahamas, and South Sudan.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Patrick Ewing (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 52.98, Patrick Ewing is the most famous Jamaican Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 41 different languages on wikipedia.
Patrick Aloysius Ewing Sr. (born August 5, 1962) is a Jamaican-American basketball coach and former professional player who last coached for the Georgetown University men's team. He played most of his career as the starting center for the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) before ending his playing career with brief stints with the Seattle SuperSonics and Orlando Magic. Ewing is regarded as one of the greatest centers of all time, playing a dominant role in the New York Knicks 1990s success. Highly recruited out of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ewing played center for Georgetown for four years—in three of which the team reached the NCAA championship game. ESPN in 2008 designated him the 16th-greatest college basketball player of all time. He had a seventeen-year NBA career, predominantly playing for the New York Knicks, where he was an eleven-time all-star and named to seven All-NBA teams. The Knicks appeared in the NBA Finals twice (1994 and 1999) during his tenure. He won Olympic gold medals as a member of the 1984 and 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball teams. Ewing was selected as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996 and as one of the 75 Greatest Players in NBA History in 2021. He is a two-time inductee into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts (in 2008 for his individual career and in 2010 as a member of the 1992 Olympic team). Additionally he was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame as a member of the "Dream Team" in 2009. His number 33 was retired by the Knicks in 2003.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jamaican basketball players born between 1962 and 1962. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jamaican basketball players include Patrick Ewing.
