May 7, 2026
Dan Boyce
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A player arriving in the NBL with NBA experience always creates interest.

Fans get excited when their team signs a former NBA player, commentators mention it during broadcasts, and every article about that player usually links their NBL performance back to their NBA résumé.

Sometimes, we see a big-time college prospect use the NBL as a springboard to the NBA and never return. Other times, established NBA veterans come to Australia looking for a fresh opportunity. And in many cases, local talent develops in the NBL, makes it to “The League”, and later returns home to finish their career.

Either way, it is always interesting to see how NBA-level talent performs in Australia compared to the world’s top basketball league.

To date, 210 players have played in both the NBL and NBA, and the list below includes their career NBA statistics.

It features players like Jonny Flynn, Steve Blake and Martin Muursepp, who arrived with strong NBA credentials but had limited NBL impact, as well as Stephen Jackson, Doug Overton and Rick Brunson, who came to Australia early in their careers before carving out long NBA journeys.

Click here to learn about which NBL players had the greatest NBA careers.

NAME	GP	GS	PPG	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	TPG	FG%	3PT%	FT%
Al Harrington	981	445	13.5	5.6	1.7	0.9	0.3	1.9	44%	35%	73%
Patrick Mills	921	112	8.7	1.6	2.2	0.6	0.1	0.9	42%	39%	86%
JaVale McGee	909	343	7.6	5.0	0.4	0.4	1.4	1.0	58%	19%	60%
Steve Blake	870	347	6.5	2.1	4.0	0.7	0.1	1.4	40%	38%	78%
Stephen Jackson	858	676	15.1	3.9	3.1	1.3	0.4	2.5	41%	33%	80%
Joe Ingles	750	316	7.7	3.0	3.5	0.8	0.1	1.4	45%	41%	77%
Andrew Bogut	682	656	9.9	8.8	2.2	0.6	1.6	1.7	53%	12%	56%
Aaron Brooks	645	183	9.6	1.7	3.0	0.6	0.1	1.6	41%	37%	84%
Luc Longley	567	362	7.2	4.9	1.5	0.5	1.0	1.7	46%	0%	76%
Hakim Warrick	526	108	9.4	4.0	0.8	0.4	0.3	1.2	49%	19%	73%
Aron Baynes	522	168	6.0	4.6	0.8	0.2	0.5	0.9	49%	31%	79%
Montrezl Harrell	515	36	12.1	5.0	1.3	0.5	0.8	1.1	62%	11%	66%
Doug Overton	499	62	4.1	1.3	2.1	0.4	0.0	0.9	41%	32%	82%
Matthew Dellavedova	443	93	5.1	1.7	3.5	0.5	0.0	1.1	38%	37%	84%
Alonzo Gee	417	213	6.6	3.3	1.1	0.9	0.2	1.1	43%	33%	75%
James Ennis	395	140	6.7	3.3	0.9	0.6	0.3	0.8	46%	36%	80%
Josh Childress	391	70	9.1	4.7	1.6	0.9	0.5	1.1	52%	33%	78%
Torrey Craig	371	154	5.7	4.0	1.0	0.5	0.6	0.6	45%	36%	69%
Tyler Johnson	354	78	9.8	3.0	2.3	0.8	0.4	1.1	43%	36%	78%
Miles Plumlee	346	168	4.9	4.5	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.9	54%		54%
Jae'Sean Tate	342	154	7.5	3.8	1.8	0.7	0.3	1.0	49%	31%	70%
Rick Brunson	337	51	3.2	1.3	2.6	0.6	0.1	1.1	38%	36%	69%
Josh Giddey	334	330	14.6	7.6	6.6	0.9	0.5	2.8	46%	34%	76%
Ian Clark	330	9	5.6	1.3	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.7	44%	34%	80%
Josh Powell	316	28	3.9	2.9	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.8	44%	35%	74%
LaMelo Ball	303	280	20.8	5.7	7.3	1.4	0.3	3.2	42%	37%	85%
Jock Landale	289	38	6.6	3.9	1.1	0.3	0.4	0.7	52%	34%	72%
Denzel Valentine	257	45	7.0	3.3	1.8	0.6	0.1	0.9	39%	36%	79%
Josh Boone	256	88	5.2	4.9	0.5	0.4	0.7	0.7	54%		44%
Sam Young	249	52	5.8	2.3	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.8	44%	28%	74%
Derrick Alston	237	49	6.1	3.1	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.9	47%	23%	59%
Todd Lichti	237	51	7.9	2.1	1.4	0.8	0.2	1.1	46%	24%	79%
Wes Iwundu	226	51	4.4	2.5	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.5	41%	29%	80%
Todd Fuller	225	23	3.7	3.0	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.6	42%	0%	67%
Donald Sloan	218	66	5.5	2.1	3.0	0.4	0.0	1.1	41%	31%	75%
Terrance Ferguson	204	124	4.5	1.3	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.5	40%	33%	75%
Abdel Nader	202	8	4.6	1.9	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.7	43%	36%	72%
Gary Clark	197	21	3.6	2.8	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.4	38%	33%	80%
Acie Earl	193	18	5.1	2.7	0.3	0.3	0.7	0.9	40%	0%	67%
Eddie Gill	187	9	3.1	1.1	1.2	0.6	0.1	0.7	36%	32%	85%
Jarell Martin	184	40	5.4	3.5	0.6	0.4	0.4	0.8	43%	35%	77%
Duop Reath	178	20	5.6	2.3	0.6	0.3	0.4	0.5	45%	36%	78%
John Jenkins	171	8	5.0	1.5	0.8	0.2	0.1	0.6	44%	37%	85%
Jonny Flynn	163	90	9.2	1.9	3.9	0.7	0.0	2.3	40%	34%	81%
Rayan Rupert	155	20	4.1	2.3	1.0	0.5	0.1	0.7	38%	32%	77%
Chris Anstey	155	23	5.2	3.4	0.8	0.5	0.4	0.9	41%	14%	75%
Kenny Payne	144	13	3.5	1.2	0.4	0.3	0.2	0.5	41%	29%	86%
Ousmane Dieng	139	22	5.7	2.7	1.6	0.4	0.2	0.9	42%	31%	70%
Admiral Schofield	131	3	3.3	1.6	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.4	42%	33%	78%
Orien Greene	131	7	2.5	1.5	1.2	0.7	0.1	1.1	39%	21%	64%
Kevin Brooks	126	2	3.3	1.1	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.5	40%	20%	86%
Jordan Mcrae	123	9	6.9	1.8	1.4	0.4	0.2	0.7	42%	35%	77%
Chasson Randle	119	7	5.7	1.4	1.8	0.5	0.1	0.9	40%	36%	80%
Rj Hampton	118	19	6.1	2.5	1.7	0.5	0.2	1.0	39%	34%	65%
Alexandre Sarr	115	115	14.4	6.9	2.5	0.7	1.7	1.7	43%	32%	68%
Jeremy Tyler	104	23	3.6	2.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.7	45%	0%	56%
David Andersen	103	0	4.9	2.8	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.6	44%	35%	67%
Orlando Johnson	103	1	3.2	1.7	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.5	36%	31%	73%
Dylan Windler	101	0	3.2	2.1	0.8	0.4	0.1	0.5	43%	35%	80%
Terry Taylor	98	9	4.6	2.6	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.4	58%	29%	69%
Anthony Lamb	88	7	6.2	3.3	1.4	0.4	0.3	0.8	45%	35%	79%
Martin Muursepp	83	7	4.7	2.2	0.6	0.5	0.3	0.6	43%	32%	69%
Ariel Hukporti	79	6	1.5	2.2	0.4	0.3	0.6	0.8	59%	25%	117%
AJ Johnson	77	11	4.9	1.5	1.6	0.3	0.1	0.8	36%	24%	86%
Marlon Redmond	77	0	6.5	2.1	1.0	0.4	0.3	1.0	42%	0%	65%
Andre Brown	75	1	2.6	2.4	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.6	52%	0%	50%
Alan Williams	67	0	6.2	5.5	0.6	0.6	0.6	0.8	51%	0%	63%
Reggie Smith	66	9	1.5	1.8	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.2	39%	0%	40%
Brandon Paul	64	2	2.3	1.1	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.5	43%	28%	51%
Donta Smith	61	0	2.7	1.1	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.5	42%	31%	65%
Awvee Storey	60	1	2.4	1.4	0.4	0.2	0.0	0.3	41%	25%	51%
Drew Barry	60	0	2.2	1.1	1.9	0.3	0.0	0.9	42%	38%	77%
Ryan Broekhoff	59	1	4.0	1.8	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.4	43%	40%	81%
Juaquin Hawkins	58	10	2.3	1.3	0.8	0.5	0.1	0.5	39%	42%	50%
Ronnie Cavenall	58	2	1.4	2.9	0.3	0.2	0.8	0.8	34%		55%
Ray Owes	57	1	3.1	2.9	0.3	0.3	0.4	0.4	42%	20%	57%
Jonah Bolden	51	10	4.3	3.4	0.8	0.4	0.8	0.7	49%	34%	48%
Mason Jones	51	1	4.4	1.5	1.2	0.2	0.0	0.6	43%	33%	66%
Randolph Childress	51	0	2.4	0.5	1.0	0.3	0.0	0.9	33%	27%	80%
Fred Cofield	50	1	3.4	1.0	1.7	0.4	0.1	1.0	39%	19%	60%
Jo Jo English	50	0	3.6	1.1	0.9	0.4	0.3	0.9	42%	34%	56%
Shane Heal	49	0	1.6	0.4	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.4	27%	29%	70%
Leroy Combs	48	0	4.5	1.2	0.8	0.5	0.4	1.0	50%	0%	62%
Dane Suttle	46	1	5.9	1.1	1.0	0.5		0.7	51%	0%	86%
Derrick Walton Jr	45	4	2.2	0.9	1.4	0.5	0.2	0.4	36%	37%	89%
RJ Hunter	45	1	3.0	1.0	0.4	0.4	0.1	0.3	37%	30%	82%
Nathan Jawai	45	2	2.8	2.4	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.6	43%	0%	68%
Sean Lampley	45	0	4.5	2.1	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.6	46%	0%	69%
Dwayne McClain	45	4	3.5	0.7	1.5	0.8	0.1	0.9	38%	11%	51%
Justin Robinson	43	0	2.6	0.8	1.1	0.3	0.0	0.5	32%	31%	54%
Greg Stokes	42	13	3.1	1.5	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.5	45%	0%	70%
Jaylen Adams	41	1	2.7	1.5	1.6	0.3	0.1	0.7	33%	33%	78%
Jarrell Brantley	41	0	2.7	1.3	0.7	0.2	0.2	0.4	46%	38%	83%
Lamar Patterson	40	0	2.3	1.4	1.1	0.3	0.1	0.7	33%	24%	72%
Darnell Mee	40	0	1.9	0.9	0.5	0.4	0.3	0.5	31%	22%	44%
Rayjon Tucker	39	0	3.0	1.0	0.5	0.2	0.0	0.3	50%	31%	78%
Damion James	39	17	3.8	3.4	0.7	0.6	0.5	1.0	41%	0%	67%
Joe Wieskamp	38	0	1.8	0.5	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	33%	31%	54%
Everette Stephens	38	0	1.9	0.6	1.0	0.2	0.1	0.8	33%	20%	79%
Rodney Monroe	38	0	3.4	0.9	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.6	37%	22%	83%
Lachlan Olbrich	37	2	2.4	3.0	1.1	0.3	0.2	0.4	47%	11%	38%
Luke Travers	36	0	1.2	1.3	0.5	0.2	0.1	0.3	25%	4%	100%
Cam Bairstow	36	3	1.2	1.0	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	30%	20%	85%
Mark Bradtke	36	0	1.6	1.9	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.3	43%		69%
Charles Thomas	36	0	1.3	0.6	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.5	35%	12%	67%
Mike Morrison	36	1	2.0	0.6	0.3	0.1		0.6	34%	29%	80%
Gerald Brown	33	0	2.4	0.7	0.9	0.2	0.0	0.7	37%	30%	79%
Lanard Copeland	33	0	2.7	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.7	42%	14%	81%
Todd Mundt	33	0	1.1	0.8	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.1	39%		63%
Keifer Sykes	32	11	5.6	1.4	1.9	0.4	0.1	1.0	36%	30%	88%
Adrian Branch	32	0	4.3	1.7	0.5	0.5	0.1	0.8	50%	0%	78%
Luke Schenscher	31	0	1.8	1.7	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	47%		45%
Winston Crite	31	0	2.8	2.1	0.5	0.2	0.3	0.8	48%		76%
Rakeem Christmas	30	0	2.1	1.9	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.3	47%		72%
Donald Whiteside	30	1	2.0	0.4	1.2	0.4		0.6	33%	32%	65%
Antonius Cleveland	28	0	1.2	0.8	0.1	0.3	0.3	0.3	34%	43%	64%
Josh Magette	26	0	2.2	1.0	2.4	0.4	0.1	0.5	33%	35%	90%
Mickell Gladness	26	7	2.2	2.2	0.2	0.2	0.8	0.3	42%		50%
Andrew Gaze	26	0	1.7	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.3	38%	38%	100%
Dedric Willoughby	25	1	7.6	2.0	2.6	0.9	0.1	1.5	34%	30%	76%
Wayne Kreklow	25	0	1.2	0.5	0.4	0.1	0.0	0.4	23%	25%	70%
Peyton Siva	24	0	2.3	0.6	1.4	0.4	0.0	0.8	32%	28%	73%
Bryce Cotton	23	0	3.8	0.8	0.8	0.3		0.7	42%	30%	83%
Julius Hodge	23	1	1.2	0.7	0.8	0.3		0.5	44%		50%
Evers Burns	23	0	2.4	1.3	0.4	0.3	0.1	0.3	40%		52%
Javon Freeman-Liberty	22	6	7.0	3.2	1.8	0.5	0.2	1.1	44%	24%	92%
Alex Ducas	21	0	1.7	1.2	0.2	0.2		0.2	40%	48%	100%
Jack White	21	0	1.3	1.4	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.2	29%	26%	67%
BJ Johnson	21	0	3.8	1.8	0.1	0.2	0.0	0.4	39%	38%	92%
Bobi Klintman	20	0	1.9	1.3	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.4	41%	33%	20%
Deng Adel	19	3	1.7	1.0	0.3	0.1	0.2	0.3	31%	26%	100%
Zhou Qi	19	0	1.3	1.2	0.1	0.1	0.7	0.5	21%	11%	67%
Stephen Zimmerman	19	0	1.2	1.8	0.2	0.1	0.3	0.2	32%		60%
James Cotton	19	0	2.6	0.8		0.2	0.1	0.5	36%	0%	78%
Jeremiah Martin	18	0	4.8	0.9	1.2	0.7	0.2	0.6	38%	27%	63%
Shawn Long	18	0	8.2	4.7	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	56%	37%	54%
Ira Bowman	17	0	0.9	0.3	0.5	0.2		0.1	64%	0%	50%
Glen Rice Jr	16	1	2.7	1.5	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.7	27%	25%	69%
Andrew White	15	0	4.6	2.3	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.5	34%	37%	25%
Nate Driggers	15	0	2.4	1.5	0.4	0.2	0.1	0.4	30%	0%	71%
Dakota Mathias	14	2	3.9	0.6	1.0	0.1	0.2	0.1	39%	31%	33%
Will Blalock	14	0	1.8	1.1	1.2	0.4		0.9	30%	20%	100%
Michael Frazier	13	0	2.1	0.8	0.2	0.2		0.4	24%	17%	64%
Didi Louzada	12	1	3.6	1.7	0.7	0.3	0.2	0.7	33%	35%	100%
Brian Bowen	12	1	0.8	0.8			0.1	0.1	29%	0%	100%
Cedric Jackson	12	0	1.7	0.7	1.2	0.3	0.2	0.9	30%	17%	58%
Clinton Mcdaniel	12	0	2.5	0.8	0.6	0.4		0.2	35%	33%	75%
Chris Munk	11	0	1.2	1.3	0.1	0.1	0.2	0.5	43%		58%
Darryl Johnson	11	0	1.1	0.2	0.1			0.1	42%	0%	100%
Wayne Englestad	11	0	2.5	1.5	0.6	0.1		0.3	38%		60%
Xavier Cooks	10	1	3.8	3.8	0.6	0.6	0.4	0.8	61%	0%	40%
Milton Doyle	10	0	3.4	1.8	1.0	0.6	0.2	0.2	28%	17%	50%
Scott Machado	10	0	1.8	0.1	0.9	0.3		0.8	58%	50%	100%
Travis Leslie	10	0	1.4	0.9	0.5	0.2	0.2	0.2	36%		44%
Ruben Nembhard	10	0	4.0	0.8	1.7	0.9		0.8	43%	0%	80%
Adonis Jordan	10	0	2.1	0.6	2.2	0.3	0.1	0.8	30%	25%	50%
Andre Moore	10	0	2.4	1.4	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.4	33%		75%
Jack McVeigh	9	0		0.1		0.2	0.2	0.3	29%	31%
Casper Ware	9	0	5.3	1.0	1.1	0.9		0.6	43%	33%	83%
Terry Dozier	9	0	2.4	1.7	0.3	0.7	0.2	0.8	33%	0%	50%
Matt Hurt	8	0	4.0	2.0	0.5	0.4	0.4	0.3	35%	25%	100%
Vic Law	8	0	1.9	1.4	0.4	0.3		0.3	33%	14%	33%
Carrick Felix	7	0	2.7	0.9	0.6			0.6	50%	40%	75%
Cameron Oliver	6	0	11.0	4.5	1.3	0.5	0.8	0.5	60%	31%	43%
Kirk Penney	6	0	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.2		0.8	22%	25%
Andre Ingram	6	0	4.0	1.3	1.2	0.7	0.5	0.7	35%	42%	100%
David Stockton	6	0	3.0	0.3	1.5	0.3		0.8	44%	60%	70%
Chris Jent	6	0	6.2	2.7	1.3			0.8	47%	43%	50%
Isaac Humphries	5	1	3.0	2.2		0.2			29%	27%
Matthew Mooney	5	0		0.2	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.2	20%	0%
Rocco Zikarsky	5	0		0.4		1.0	0.2	0.6	63%		400%
Mitchell Creek	5	0	4.2	2.4	1.2	0.4		0.2	50%	0%	71%
Jacob Wiley	5	0	0.8	2.2	0.4	0.2			25%	50%	50%
George King	5	0	0.2	1.2				0.2	0%	0%	50%
Xavier Rathan-Mayes	5	0	5.8	1.0	3.6	1.2	0.6	2.2	29%	7%	44%
Darington Hobson	5	0	0.8	0.6	1.2			0.4	15%	0%
Zylan Cheatham	4	0	3.0	2.3	0.8	0.3	0.3	1.0	67%	0%
Darius Days	4	0	3.8	1.5	0.3		0.3		42%	30%	100%
Mangok Mathiang	4	0	2.0	2.5		0.3			57%		0%
Dusty Hannahs	4	0	5.0	0.5	1.3	0.3		0.3	33%	25%	100%
Stanton Kidd	4	0		0.8	0.3			0.5	0%	0%
Greg Whittington	4	0							0%	0%
Craig Sword	3	0	2.0		0.3	1.3		0.3	75%	0%
Scotty Hopson	3	0	0.7		0.7	0.3		0.3	0%	0%	50%
Tony Mitchell	3	0	2.0	0.3	0.3	0.3			60%	0%
Wayne Turner	3	0	1.3	1.0	1.7			1.0	17%		33%
Ricky Grace	3	0	1.3	0.3	0.3				67%		0%
Korleone Young	3	0	4.3	1.3	0.3			0.3	50%	25%	100%
Jesse Edwards	2	0			0.5			1.0
David Johnson	2	0							0%	0%
Rob Edwards	2	0		1.5				0.5	25%	25%
Ben Moore	2	0		0.5	0.5
Dj Kennedy	2	0	6.0	3.5	1.5	1.0		1.5	42%	50%	0%
David Wear	2	0		1.0	0.5				0%	0%
Shane Edwards	2	0				0.5	0.5	1.0	33%		0%
Trey Gilder	2	0	1.0	0.5		0.5			100%
Jerome Beasley	2	0	1.0	0.5					33%
Robert Rose	2	0		1.0					0%
Michael Champion	2	0						0.5	0%	0%
Izaiah Brockington	1	0							40%	0%
Will Magnay	1	0						1.0	0%	0%
Tahjere McCall	1	0	4.0	1.0					67%	0%	0%

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