The Most Famous
BASKETBALL PLAYERS from Venezuela
This page contains a list of the greatest Venezuelan Basketball Players. The pantheon dataset contains 1,757 Basketball Players, 1 of which were born in Venezuela. This makes Venezuela the birth place of the 71st most number of Basketball Players behind Romania, and Austria.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Venezuelan Basketball Players of all time. This list of famous Venezuelan Basketball Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Greivis Vásquez (b. 1987)
With an HPI of 30.45, Greivis Vásquez is the most famous Venezuelan Basketball Player. His biography has been translated into 20 different languages on wikipedia.
Greivis Josué Vásquez Rodríguez (born January 16, 1987) is a Venezuelan former professional basketball player, who spent six seasons in the NBA. He is currently a coach, most recently working as the associate head coach for the Erie BayHawks of the NBA G League. Vásquez also represented the Venezuela national team in international competitions, as he was born in Caracas and moved to the United States to attend high school at Montrose Christian School in Rockville, Maryland in 2004. During his senior year at Montrose he committed to the University of Maryland to play under head coach Gary Williams. He was drafted in 2010 after a U.S. college career with Maryland, where he finished second on the Terrapins' all-time scoring list with 2,171 career points. In 2007, Vásquez played on the Venezuela national basketball team in the FIBA America Championships. In his final college season of 2009–10, he was one of three Venezuelans playing in NCAA Division I men's basketball, with the others being David Cubillan of the Marquette Golden Eagles and Gregory Echenique of the Creighton Bluejays.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Venezuelan basketball players born between 1987 and 1987. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Venezuelan basketball players include Greivis Vásquez.
