Vote up the greatest Spanish basketball players ever.
Who are the best basketball players from Spain? The Republic of Spain has produced some very talented basketball players in recent years, including some of the best players in the NBA. Many of the best Spanish basketball players to ever live are on this list, so if you're a native of Spain and are aspiring to play ball professionally, then these people should be your idols. So, who is the best Spanish basketball player of all time? Which great basketball players are from Spain?
Many people acknowledge the Gasol brothers, Pau and Marc, as the best Spain basketball player ever, as they are both NBA champions There are also recent NBA players from Spain like Serge Ibaka, Ricky Rubio, and Nikola Mirotic. Lest we forget the Spanish basketball legends, such as Epi, Emiliano Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Fernando Martín Espina.
Vote up the best Spanish basketball players and help decide who are the greatest basketball players of all time from the Republic of Spain!
Pau Gasol Sáez (born July 6, 1980) is a retired Spanish professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is a six-time NBA All-Star and a four-time All-NBA selection, twice on the second team and twice on the third team. Gasol has won two NBA championships, both with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was the NBA Rookie of the Year in 2002 with the Memphis Grizzlies, and is one of only three non-American NBA players to have won that award. He is the older brother of fellow NBA player Marc Gasol. Internationally, Gasol has won two Olympic silver medals, an Olympic bronze medal, a FIBA World Cup title, and three EuroBasket titles with the ...more
Position: Power forward, Center
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Teams: Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers, Chicago Bulls, San Antonio Spurs
Fernando Martín Espina (March 25, 1962 – December 3, 1989) was a Spanish professional basketball player who was considered to be one of the best Spanish basketball players ever. Martín was 2.06 m (6'9") tall, and he played primarily at the center position. He was considered a talented all-around athlete. He was a five-time swimming champion in Spain, as well as being a highly ranked athlete in the sports of handball, table tennis and judo.
Martín wore the number 10 jersey, which Real Madrid retired after his death. He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players, in 1991. In 2007, he was enshrined into the FIBA Hall of Fame.
Ricard Rubio i Vives (born October 21, 1990) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish ACB League on October 15, 2005, at age 14. On June 25, 2009, he was drafted with the fifth pick in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Timberwolves, making him the first player born in the 1990s to be drafted by the NBA. The Timberwolves had an agreement in principle with his former Spanish team, DKV Joventut, to buy out his contract, but Rubio backed out of the deal. On August 31, 2009, Joventut traded the rights to Rubio to FC Barcelona, and Rubio signed a ...more
Marc Gasol Sáez (born 29 January 1985) is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). A center, he was drafted 48th overall by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2007 NBA draft. After having his rights traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in February 2008 in a deal that sent his older brother Pau to the Lakers, he signed with the team and remained with the franchise until being traded to the Toronto Raptors in 2019, where he won his first NBA championship. He is a two-time All-NBA Team member, a three-time NBA All-Star, and an NBA champion. In 2013, he was named the NBA Defensive Player of the Year.
Position: Center
Birthplace: Barcelona, Spain
Teams: Los Angeles Lakers, Toronto Raptors, Memphis Grizzlies
