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Attention[edit]

Someone attempted to replace Hakeem Olajuwon's name with Michael Jordan's. I tried to correct it but the formatting left things looking…strange. Fix please. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.246.7.5 (talk) 13:07, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

- Apparently they also added Dirk Nowitzki, Pau Gasol and others who are NOT first draft picks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.246.7.5 (talk) 13:10, 1 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment[edit]

By Yao Ming's name, it says he's from "Chnia" This should be changed to "China" but I can't find it in the edit box...—Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.128.103.112 (talk • contribs)

Fixed. Awyong J. M. Salleh 01:51, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Should there be a category that denotes players who have won an MVP award? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.211.197.81 (talk) 23:10, 14 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Rename?[edit]

Would this make more sense it is was renamed to List of NBA first overall draft picks? Caknuck 02:17, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Point?[edit]

What's the point of having the yellow for the legend key? There isn't even anyone on the list who qualifies as being a hall of famer but not ever being an All Star selection. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.198.253.193 (talk) 16:45, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I add the yellow in in case there is a Hall of Famer who doesn't have an All Star selection. But you are right, this color is unnecessary right now.—Chris!_c/t 19:16, 19 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This reference[edit]

The reference is cited in the photo of LeBron James, but it doesn't exist. Does anybody know a source that could replace this one, I couldn't find one. Robert4565 (talk) 03:16, 22 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What[edit]

Lol... This list is not right. Nowitzki was no #1 pick,neither was navarro and others

FAIL

--95.89.43.16 (talk) 20:25, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

International[edit]

How can Tim Duncan be considered a player with international experience? The US Virgin Islands are part of the US, so he is not an international player. 67.253.250.154 (talk) 03:00, 4 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Karl Anthony Towns, International?[edit]

Karl Anthony Towns is from the Dominican Republic Yet is not listed as an international player. SpannerJNR (talk) 00:05, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on interpretation. The NBA's PR generally calls players "international" if they were born outside of the 50 U.S. states. Towns was born in New Jersey. This page's table seems to use a player's national team affiliation, if any. For years, a lot of these NBA Wiki pages have been ambiguous on what it considers "nationality", which seems particularly bad on a lot of these lists with WP:FL status.—Bagumba (talk) 01:33, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fair enough but surely that would mean Tim Duncan isn't an oversees player as he played for the USA national team at the 2004 Olympics SpannerJNR (talk) 14:27, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The NBA counts him as "international" since he was not born in one of the 50 U.S. states. Frankly, a player's "representative nationality" is a Wikipedia invention of sorts. The NBA doesnt have quotas on foreign players, so that concept seems trivial here.—Bagumba (talk) 17:57, 24 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]