February 10, 2021
Dan Boyce
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A player who enters the NBL with NBA experience is always exciting news.

Fans will get excited when their team signs an NBA Free Agent. The NBL commentators will be sure to mention it during every telecast game and any newspaper article will be sure to reference it while speaking about said players’ NBL performance that week also.

Sometimes we’ll see a big-time college player use the NBL as a springboard to the NBA and we never see them again.

Other times we see NBA stars whose talent may be starting to fade, and find fresh opportunities in Australia.

And of course, there are times we see our local talent develop in the NBL before making it to “The League” and then often returning to the NBL to finish their careers.

In any instance, it’s always exciting to see how an NBA quality player performs in our league in comparison to the best basketball league in the world.

To date, 168 players have managed to play in both the NBL and the NBA and the list below includes their career NBA statistics.

It includes players like Johnny Flynn, Steve Blake and Martin Muursepp who came here with impressive credentials but failed to deliver much to an NBL stat sheet and players like Stephen Jackson, Doug Overton, and Rick Brunson who come to our shores as young ballers on their first professional contracts and after a short stint down under carved out impressive multi-year careers in the NBA.

For further information, check out which NBL players had the greatest NBA careers.

NAME	G	GS	MP	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FG%	3P%	FT%
Jaylen Adams	41	1	10.9	2.7	1.5	1.6	0.3	0.1	0.7	33%	33%	78%
Aron Baynes	522	168	16	6	4.6	0.8	0.2	0.5	0.9	49%	31%	79%
Jonah Bolden	51	10	13.5	4.3	3.4	0.8	0.4	0.8	0.7	49%	34%	48%
Zylan Cheatham	4	0	12.8	3	2.3	0.8	0.3	0.3	1	67%	0%
Ian Clark	330	9	13.7	5.6	1.3	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.7	44%	34%	80%
Bryce Cotton	23	0	8.6	3.8	0.8	0.8	0.3		0.7	42%	30%	83%
Mitchell Creek	5	0	9.6	4.2	2.4	1.2	0.4		0.2	50%	0%	71%
Matthew Dellavedova	443	93	19.3	5.1	1.7	3.5	0.5	0	1.1	38%	37%	84%
Milton Doyle	10	0	12.5	3.4	1.8	1	0.6	0.2	0.2	28%	17%	50%
Isaac Humphries	5	1	11.2	3	2.2		0.2			29%	27%
Will Magnay	1	0	3						1	0%	0%
Mangok Mathiang	4	0	5	2	2.5		0.3			57%		0%
Tahjere McCall	1	0	8	4	1					67%	0%	0%
Justin Robinson	43	0	10.3	2.6	0.8	1.1	0.3	0	0.5	32%	31%	54%
Denzel Valentine	257	45	18.8	7	3.3	1.8	0.6	0.1	0.9	39%	36%	79%
Jacob Wiley	5	0	6.6	0.8	2.2	0.4	0.2			25%	50%	50%
Alan Williams	67	0	13	6.2	5.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	51%	0%	63%
Abdel Nader	202	8	12.8	4.6	1.9	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.7	43%	36%	72%
Jarrell Brantley	41	0	6.7	2.7	1.3	0.7	0.2	0.2	0.4	46%	38%	83%
Ryan Broekhoff	59	1	10.7	4	1.8	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.4	43%	40%	81%
Antonius Cleveland	28	0	6	1.2	0.8	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	34%	43%	64%
Xavier Cooks	10	1	12.6	3.8	3.8	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.8	61%	0%	40%
Tyler Johnson	354	78	24.6	9.8	3	2.3	0.8	0.4	1.1	43%	36%	78%
George King	5	0	5	0.2	1.2				0.2	0%	0%	50%
Josh Magette	26	0	9.8	2.2	1	2.4	0.4	0.1	0.5	33%	35%	90%
Zhou Qi	19	0	6.6	1.3	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.7	0.5	21%	11%	67%
Xavier Rathan-Mayes	5	0	23.6	5.8	1	3.6	1.2	0.6	2.2	29%	7%	44%
Peyton Siva	48	0	9.3	2.3	0.6	1.4	0.4	0	0.8	32%	28%	73%
Rayjon Tucker	39	0	7.7	3	1	0.5	0.2	0	0.3	50%	31%	78%
Derrick Walton Jr	45	4	11.2	2.2	0.9	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.4	36%	37%	89%
Andrew White	15	0	13.9	4.6	2.3	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.5	34%	37%	25%
Cam Bairstow	36	3	4.6	1.2	1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	30%	20%	85%
Ousmane Dieng	39	1	14.6	4.9	2.7	1.2	0.4	0.2	0.7	42%	27%	65%
Dusty Hannahs	4	0	9.8	5	0.5	1.3	0.3		0.3	33%	25%	100%
RJ Hunter	45	1	8.8	3	1	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	37%	30%	82%
Nathan Jawai	45	2	9.6	2.8	2.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.6	43%	0%	68%
Vic Law	8	0	7.8	1.9	1.4	0.4	0.3		0.3	33%	14%	33%
Scott Machado	10	0	4	1.8	0.1	0.9	0.3		0.8	58%	50%	100%
Jarell Martin	184	40	15.9	5.4	3.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.8	43%	35%	77%
Jeremiah Martin	18	0	9.7	4.8	0.9	1.2	0.7	0.2	0.6	38%	27%	63%
Lamar Patterson	40	0	10.9	2.3	1.4	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.7	33%	24%	72%
Chasson Randle	119	7	16.1	5.7	1.4	1.8	0.5	0.1	0.9	40%	36%	80%
Jack White	17	0	3.9	1.2	1	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	42%	33%	67%
Stephen Zimmerman	19	0	5.7	1.2	1.8	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.2	32%		60%
Deng Adel	19	3	10.2	1.7	1	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	31%	26%	100%
David Andersen	103	0	12.3	4.9	2.8	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.6	44%	35%	67%
Josh Giddey	130	130	31.3	14.9	7.8	6.3	0.8	0.4	2.9	46%	30%	72%
Scotty Hopson	3	0	5	0.7		0.7	0.3		0.3	0%	0%	50%
BJ Johnson	21	0	9.4	3.8	1.8	0.1	0.2	0	0.4	39%	38%	92%
Orlando Johnson	103	1	10.8	3.2	1.7	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.5	36%	31%	73%
Jock Landale	123	5	12.7	5.9	3.4	0.9	0.2	0.4	0.7	52%	29%	77%
Didi Louzada	12	1	15.4	3.6	1.7	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.7	33%	35%	100%
Ben Moore	2	0	4.5		0.5	0.5
Cameron Oliver	6	0	21.7	11	4.5	1.3	0.5	0.8	0.5	60%	31%	43%
Brandon Paul	64	2	9	2.3	1.1	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.5	43%	28%	51%
Donald Sloan	218	66	17.2	5.5	2.1	3	0.4	0	1.1	41%	31%	75%
Keifer Sykes	32	11	17.7	5.6	1.4	1.9	0.4	0.1	1	36%	30%	88%
Casper Ware	9	0	12.9	5.3	1	1.1	0.9		0.6	43%	33%	83%
LaMelo Ball	162	142	31.8	19.4	6.4	7.3	1.5	0.4	3.2	43%	38%	83%
Andrew Bogut	682	656	28.8	9.9	8.8	2.2	0.6	1.6	1.7	53%	12%	56%
Josh Boone	256	88	17.5	5.2	4.9	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.7	54%		44%
Aaron Brooks	645	183	20.8	9.6	1.7	3	0.6	0.1	1.6	41%	37%	84%
Rj Hampton	110	17	18.4	6.4	2.7	1.7	0.5	0.2	1.1	39%	35%	65%
Darington Hobson	5	0	7.8	0.8	0.6	1.2			0.4	15%	0%
Stanton Kidd	4	0	3.8		0.8	0.3			0.5	0%	0%
Shawn Long	18	0	13	8.2	4.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	56%	37%	54%
Miles Plumlee	346	168	16.4	4.9	4.5	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.9	54%		54%
Glen Rice Jr	16	1	9.5	2.7	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.7	27%	25%	69%
Jae'Sean Tate	179	142	26.7	11.2	5.1	2.7	1	0.5	1.6	50%	31%	71%
Brian Bowen	12	1	3.8	0.8	0.8			0.1	0.1	29%	0%	100%
Alonzo Gee	417	213	21.8	6.6	3.3	1.1	0.9	0.2	1.1	43%	33%	75%
Cedric Jackson	12	0	6.2	1.7	0.7	1.2	0.3	0.2	0.9	30%	17%	58%
Dj Kennedy	2	0	29.5	6	3.5	1.5	1		1.5	42%	50%	0%
David Wear	2	0	3.5		1	0.5				0%	0%
Josh Childress	391	70	26.7	9.1	4.7	1.6	0.9	0.5	1.1	52%	33%	78%
Rakeem Christmas	30	0	7.5	2.1	1.9	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	47%		72%
Carrick Felix	7	0	5.4	2.7	0.9	0.6			0.6	50%	40%	75%
Travis Leslie	10	0	4.5	1.4	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	36%		44%
Kirk Penney	6	0	5	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.2		0.8	22%	25%
Jeremy Tyler	104	23	9.9	3.6	2.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.7	45%	0%	56%
Steve Blake	870	347	23.9	6.5	2.1	4	0.7	0.1	1.4	40%	38%	78%
Torrey Craig	328	139	19.9	6	4	1	0.5	0.6	0.7	46%	35%	68%
Terrance Ferguson	204	124	19.6	4.5	1.3	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.5	40%	33%	75%
Andre Ingram	6	0	13.2	4	1.3	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.7	35%	42%	100%
Tony Mitchell	3	0	3.3	2	0.3	0.3	0.3			60%	0%
Josh Powell	316	28	12.6	3.9	2.9	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.8	44%	35%	74%
David Stockton	6	0	7	3	0.3	1.5	0.3		0.8	44%	60%	70%
Greg Whittington	4	0	3							0%	0%
Al Harrington	981	445	28.6	13.5	5.6	1.7	0.9	0.3	1.9	44%	35%	73%
Damion James	39	17	16	3.8	3.4	0.7	0.6	0.5	1	41%	0%	67%
Luke Schenscher	31	0	8.6	1.8	1.7	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	47%		45%
Hakim Warrick	526	108	20.2	9.4	4	0.8	0.4	0.3	1.2	49%	19%	73%
Mickell Gladness	26	7	9.7	2.2	2.2	0.2	0.2	0.8	0.3	42%		50%
Jordan Mcrae	123	9	13.8	6.9	1.8	1.4	0.4	0.2	0.7	42%	35%	77%
James Ennis	395	140	20.3	6.7	3.3	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.8	46%	36%	80%
Sam Young	249	52	15.9	5.8	2.3	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.8	44%	28%	74%
Jonny Flynn	163	90	22.9	9.2	1.9	3.9	0.7	0	2.3	40%	34%	81%
Eddie Gill	187	9	10.9	3.1	1.1	1.2	0.6	0.1	0.7	36%	32%	85%
Patrick Mills	860	107	20.4	9	1.7	2.3	0.6	0.1	1	43%	39%	85%
Will Blalock	14	0	11.9	1.8	1.1	1.2	0.4		0.9	30%	20%	100%
Andre Brown	75	1	8	2.6	2.4	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.6	52%	0%	50%
Trey Gilder	2	0	2.5	1	0.5		0.5			100%
Chris Anstey	155	23	13.9	5.2	3.4	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.9	41%	14%	75%
Julius Hodge	23	1	4.3	1.2	0.7	0.8	0.3		0.5	44%		50%
Awvee Storey	60	1	6.8	2.4	1.4	0.4	0.2	0	0.3	41%	25%	51%
Juaquin Hawkins	58	10	11.8	2.3	1.3	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.5	39%	42%	50%
Shane Heal	49	0	6.3	1.6	0.4	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.4	27%	29%	70%
Joe Ingles	636	313	25.5	8.5	3.2	3.7	0.9	0.2	1.5	45%	41%	77%
Darnell Mee	40	0	7.3	1.9	0.9	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	31%	22%	44%
Donta Smith	61	0	9.2	2.7	1.1	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.5	42%	31%	65%
Derrick Alston	237	49	16.3	6.1	3.1	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.9	47%	23%	59%
Gerald Brown	33	0	7.2	2.4	0.7	0.9	0.2	0	0.7	37%	30%	79%
Lanard Copeland	33	0	4.8	2.7	0.5	0.4	0.1	0	0.7	42%	14%	81%
Orien Greene	131	7	11.9	2.5	1.5	1.2	0.7	0.1	1.1	39%	21%	64%
Sean Lampley	45	0	12.2	4.5	2.1	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.6	46%	0%	69%
Martin Muursepp	83	7	11.5	4.7	2.2	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.6	43%	32%	69%
Wayne Turner	3	0	13.7	1.3	1	1.7			1	17%		33%
Jerome Beasley	2	0	2.5	1	0.5					33%
Mark Bradtke	36	0	7	1.6	1.9	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	43%		69%
Todd Fuller	225	23	11.1	3.7	3	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.6	42%	0%	67%
Robert Rose	2	0	1.5		1					0%
Andrew Gaze	26	0	4.9	1.7	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.3	38%	38%	100%
Ricky Grace	3	0	2.7	1.3	0.3	0.3				67%		0%
Kevin Brooks	126	2	8.2	3.3	1.1	0.4	0.1	0	0.5	40%	20%	86%
Ruben Nembhard	10	0	11.3	4	0.8	1.7	0.9		0.8	43%	0%	80%
Charles Thomas	36	0	4.3	1.3	0.6	0.6	0.1	0	0.5	35%	12%	67%
Adonis Jordan	10	0	9.7	2.1	0.6	2.2	0.3	0.1	0.8	30%	25%	50%
Ray Owes	57	1	10.4	3.1	2.9	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	42%	20%	57%
Korleone Young	3	0	5	4.3	1.3	0.3			0.3	50%	25%	100%
Randolph Childress	51	0	7.9	2.4	0.5	1	0.3	0	0.9	33%	27%	80%
James Cotton	19	0	4.8	2.6	0.8		0.2	0.1	0.5	36%	0%	78%
Andre Moore	10	0	5	2.4	1.4	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.4	33%		75%
Kenny Payne	144	13	8.1	3.5	1.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.5	41%	29%	86%
Dedric Willoughby	25	1	20.3	7.6	2	2.6	0.9	0.1	1.5	34%	30%	76%
Drew Barry	60	0	10	2.2	1.1	1.9	0.3	0	0.9	42%	38%	77%
Acie Earl	193	18	13	5.1	2.7	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.9	40%	0%	67%
Todd Mundt	33	0	4.6	1.1	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	39%		63%
Todd Lichti	237	51	17.9	7.9	2.1	1.4	0.8	0.2	1.1	46%	24%	79%
Clinton Mcdaniel	12	0	5.9	2.5	0.8	0.6	0.4		0.2	35%	33%	75%
Evers Burns	23	0	6.2	2.4	1.3	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.3	40%		52%
Nate Driggers	15	0	8.8	2.4	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.4	30%	0%	71%
Stephen Jackson	858	676	31.9	15.1	3.9	3.1	1.3	0.4	2.5	41%	33%	80%
Dwayne McClain	45	4	10.2	3.5	0.7	1.5	0.8	0.1	0.9	38%	11%	51%
Ira Bowman	17	0	4	0.9	0.3	0.5	0.2		0.1	64%	0%	50%
Rick Brunson	337	51	13.5	3.2	1.3	2.6	0.6	0.1	1.1	38%	36%	69%
Fred Cofield	50	1	9.9	3.4	1	1.7	0.4	0.1	1	39%	19%	60%
Jo Jo English	50	0	11.5	3.6	1.1	0.9	0.4	0.3	0.9	42%	34%	56%
Chris Jent	6	0	14.7	6.2	2.7	1.3			0.8	47%	43%	50%
Chris Munk	11	0	2.6	1.2	1.3	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.5	43%		58%
Reggie Smith	66	9	5.8	1.5	1.8	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	39%	0%	40%
Adrian Branch	32	0	6.8	4.3	1.7	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.8	50%	0%	78%
Terry Dozier	9	0	10.2	2.4	1.7	0.3	0.7	0.2	0.8	33%	0%	50%
Darryl Johnson	11	0	2.5	1.1	0.2	0.1			0.1	42%	0%	100%
Everette Stephens	38	0	5.7	1.9	0.6	1	0.2	0.1	0.8	33%	20%	79%
Rodney Monroe	38	0	8.2	3.4	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.6	37%	22%	83%
Mike Morrison	36	1	4.3	2	0.6	0.3	0.1		0.6	34%	29%	80%
Donald Whiteside	30	1	9.2	2	0.4	1.2	0.4		0.6	33%	32%	65%
Doug Overton	499	62	14.6	4.1	1.3	2.1	0.4	0	0.9	41%	32%	82%
Wayne Englestad	11	0	4.5	2.5	1.5	0.6	0.1		0.3	38%		60%
Greg Stokes	42	13	9.1	3.1	1.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.5	45%	0%	70%
Leroy Combs	48	0	9.3	4.5	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.4	1	50%	0%	62%
Winston Crite	31	0	8.5	2.8	2.1	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.8	48%		76%
Michael Champion	2	0	2						0.5	0%	0%
Luc Longley	567	362	21.2	7.2	4.9	1.5	0.5	1	1.7	46%	0%	76%
Dane Suttle	46	1	10.7	5.9	1.1	1	0.5		0.7	51%	0%	86%
Wayne Kreklow	25	0	4	1.2	0.5	0.4	0.1	0	0.4	23%	25%	70%
Marlon Redmond	77	0	13.7	6.5	2.1	1	0.4	0.3	1	42%	0%	65%
Ronnie Cavenall	58	2	11.5	1.4	2.9	0.3	0.2	0.8	0.8	34%		55%

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