The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from The Bahamas
This page contains a list of the greatest Bahamian Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,268 Basketball Players, 2 of which were born in The Bahamas. This makes The Bahamas the birth place of the 49th most number of Basketball Players behind Kazakhstan and Puerto Rico.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Bahamian Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Bahamian Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Buddy Hield (1992 - )
With an HPI of 29.24, Buddy Hield is the most famous Bahamian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Chavano Rainer "Buddy" Hield (born December 17, 1992) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Oklahoma Sooners and was named the Big 12 Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year in 2015 and 2016. In 2016, he received four major national player of the year awards—the John R. Wooden Award, the Naismith Award, Sporting News Player of the Year, and the Oscar Robertson Trophy. Hield was selected with the sixth overall pick in the 2016 NBA draft by the New Orleans Pelicans and was traded to the Sacramento Kings for DeMarcus Cousins in 2017. He was dealt to the Indiana Pacers in a package for Domantas Sabonis in 2022. In February of 2024 he was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers.
2. Deandre Ayton (1998 - )
With an HPI of 27.95, Deandre Ayton is the 2nd most famous Bahamian Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.
Deandre Edoneille Ayton Sr. (born July 23, 1998) is a Bahamian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A consensus five-star prospect in the Class of 2017 and a McDonald's All-American, he played one season of college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats, where he was named the Pac-12 Player of the Year. Ayton was selected with the first overall pick in the 2018 NBA draft by the Phoenix Suns and was named to the NBA All-Rookie First Team in 2019. In 2021, he helped lead the Suns to their first NBA Finals appearance since 1993.
Pantheon has 2 people classified as basketball players born between 1992 and 1998. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living basketball players include Buddy Hield and Deandre Ayton.
