The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Portugal
This page contains a list of the greatest Portuguese Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Portugal. This makes Portugal the birth place of the 63rd most number of Basketball Players behind Gabon, and Central African Republic.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Portuguese Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Portuguese Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Ticha Penicheiro (b. 1974)
With an HPI of 31.65, Ticha Penicheiro is the most famous Portuguese Basketball Player. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages on wikipedia.
Patrícia "Ticha" Nunes Penicheiro OIH (September 18, 1974) is a Portuguese sports agent and former basketball player. She played for the Sacramento Monarchs of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) for most of her professional career. She was a four-time WNBA All-Star and a three-time All-WNBA selection. Regarded as one of the best point guards of all time, she ranks third all-time in career assists and led the league in assists seven times. She won a WNBA championship with the Monarchs in 2005. She was inducted into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2019.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Portuguese basketball players born between 1974 and 1974. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Portuguese basketball players include Ticha Penicheiro.
