Best European Basketball Players

The Top Ten
1 Nikos Galis

Greatest Greek basketball player, regarded by many as the greatest athlete of the country.

A legend who is arguably best European player to have never played NBA

Europe's Michael Jordan, unstoppable

Best of all by far. Unstoppable.

2 Sergei Belov

The Russian guard was voted Best European basketball player of the first 100 years of the sport (after him A. Sabonis, D. Petrovic).

3 Dirk Nowitzki Dirk Werner Nowitzki is a German professional basketball player for the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association.
4 Drazen Dalipagic

One of the most legendary European basketball players voted in the ten best of the first century of the sport.
The Yugoslav small forward finished his career with an average of 28.9 ppg.

5 Drazen Petrovic

Only player who could alone win

He is great love his plays

6 Radivoj Korac

One of the greatest ever.

7 Arvydas Sabonis
8 Panagiotis Giannakis
9 Vassilis Goumas

"The emperor" was the first player that reached 10000 points in all European National championships.

10 Pau Gasol Pau Gasol Sáez is a Spanish professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association.
The Contenders
11 Toni Kukoc
12 Kresimir Cosic
13 Dimitris Diamantidis
14 Peja Stojaković
15 Dejan Bodiroga
16 Vlade Divac
17 Antonello Riva

The Italian guard is the 3nd all time scorer of all European National leagues with 14,399 points.

18 Tony Parker William Anthony Parker Jr. is a French professional basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association.

Best French basketball player.

19 Dragan Kicanovic
20 Vassilis Spanoulis
21 Dino Radja

Dino Rađa (Anglicized: Dino Radja) is a retired Croatian professional basketball player.
He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped to win two EuroLeague championships (1989 and 1990). He spent three and a half seasons with the Boston Celtics (1993-1997), being one of the European pioneers in the NBA. He also played in Greece with both rivals Olympiacos and Panathinaikos and in Italy.

22 Dino Meneghin
23 Juan Carlos Navarro
24 Sarunas Marciulionis
25 Ivo Daneu
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